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The 28 year old Austrian wants to make the definitive leap in quality by dedicating himself to three disciplines. Following the example of teammate Matthias Mayer.
Tuesday 28 April 2020 4 minutes reading time
There may be another candidate on the list that will apply for the 2020/21 General World Cup.
As Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has shown by beating the great favorites Pinturault and Kristoffersen, with three disciplines available and the possibility of grasping other points between combined and parallel, even a specialist in fast disciplines, in the post-domination era of Hirscher, can think of play for the absolute crystal ball.
And here, if we go to see who finished behind the two Norwegians and the French in the final classification of the 2019/2020 cup, we find two Austrians with this type of characteristics: Matthias Mayer, who widened his horizons to the giant in the past season (although not getting much), and Vincent Kriechmayr placed 5th, with 794 active points and just over 400 behind Kilde. Just the native of Upper Austria, in 2019/2020 twice winner in super-g (in Val Gardena and in the home race in Hinterstoder), where he stroked his first specialty cup losing it for only 3 points in favor of Mauro Caviezel, announced to the Austrian media that he had also decided to broaden the horizon to discipline between wide doors. "Yes, he will continue to do it in training but with the will to make a giant even in the race," said the dt of the men's national team, Andreas Puelacher.
Thanks to the 500 points achieved in the general WCSL, Kriechmayr will be able to leave immediately after the first 30 in the world; this is not an unexplored territory for the Wunderteam sprinter, former vice world champion at junior level in Crans-Montana 2011, even if at the time the giant seemed really another specialty, between materials and tracks.
“However, I don't want to become an all-round multiplayer, we know how difficult it would be - Kriechmayr's words on the subject - I have not yet won a crystal ball and the fast disciplines, where I can fight at the top, remain my priority. In the current state of things, the general World Cup is not a goal. " We'll see...
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