Kriechmayr and a Lauberhorn who makes people talk: "I understand the doubts, but the same colleagues were in solidarity"

The Austrian, in triumph in the second descent of Wengen after having obtained the exemption to compete without tests, explains his point of view. Feuz, second and now back to Paris to look for the five in the specialty cup: "Five days in a row here are very hard, it's normal to make mistakes."

Saturday 15 January 2022 4 minutes reading time

Yesterday beaten by a Norwegian, with a double podium behind Kilde in the shortened descent of the Lauberhorn, but today in Wengen all the Swiss fans really wanted only the top step. A mockery of pranks, to prevent the legendary poker of Beat Feuz, who would have reached a certain Franz Klammer in terms of success in the Bernese Oberland, it was an Austrian and the most discussed, after what happened in recent days. Vincent Kriechmayr signed the encore of 2019, at the same time taking the tenth pearl in the World Cup, but this race, as well as yesterday's, the two world champion from Cortina should not even have played it, since he had been stopped by Austrian authorities, for a necessary quarantine period after a positive Covid test (although all the other swabs were negative), thus losing the two official tests on Tuesday and Wednesday. The derogation granted by the FIS and by Markus Waldner creates a precedent and the controversy was not lacking even in the post-race: "You always have to go to the limit to be able to win, it is now clear - Kriechmayr analyzed to oesv.at - Today I think I did at my best, I had the all or nothing mentality. It is an honor to be on the podium with Mr. Lauberhorn, Beat Feuz, and I can say that the opinions of colleagues are important to me. Odermatt, Feuz himself and my teammates said they understand my situation and think it was good that I was at the start. I understand the discussions, but I certainly didn't have an optimal preparation for this race; moreover, I am convinced that the jury will do the same thing if there are other athletes in a particular situation linked to Covid as happened to me ". Beat Feuz himself, now back in second place in the specialty ranking, 11 points behind Dominik Paris before the double battle of Kitzbuehel (where the Swiss won for the first time in his career in 2021, even taking both runs on the Streif, ed), thus spoke to Blick about his race. “It wasn't perfect, but if you analyze everyone's descents, no one was able to do everything well today. Going down here for five days in a row hurts anyone, but I still took home two podiums in Wengen (and there are seven in total, with three wins), important considering that the last few weeks have not been easy for me. I made some mistakes and therefore I think this is a more than good result ”.

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