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On the day when, with the conquest of his fifth consecutive overall World Cup, the career & nbsp; Marcel Hirscher & nbsp; if you can become even more & ugrave; legendary since gi & agrave; it was not (only & nbsp; Annemarie Pr & ouml; ll & nbsp; among women & egrave; managed in a similar enterprise), we want to try to make some reflections on what place deserves to occupy the 'Austrian in a kind of ranking of the pi & ugrave; large of all time.
Sunday 20 March 2016 14 minutes reading time
As for the technical disciplines, we can gi & agrave; safe to say that the champion of Salzburg & egrave; the second ever behind all''inarrivabile (for now?) Ingemar Stenmark. And '' true that the Alberto Tomba & egrave; still ahead and the number of victories as a limited number of podiums in giant slalom Cup and excluding the parallels (in the first case 50 to 36 but Marcel also won two parallel and super-G, in the second case 88 to 81 but it Marcel also in a combined 4, 3 and 3 in parallel in super-G that make up the total to 91) but in a span of four to five years, the Bolognese do not & egrave; never approached the consistency impressive return that has had Hirscher in the last five seasons. In 92 of the disputed Cup slalom and giant among the 'winter 2011-2012 and today the' Austrian & egrave; climbed on the podium 70 times, winning 33, the average rises even more & ugrave; regarding only the giants: on 43 it has closed on the podium, winning 16 and 35 only in un''occasione did worse than sixth place, however, throwing away a certain victory on the final wall of the Adelboden giant 12 January 2013 and this , inforcate in separate slalom, & egrave; It was the 'only its "fatal flaw" in the past five years. Simply awesome.
C '' & egrave; then to say, as we have gi & agrave; mentioned before, that Hirscher propensities to speed & agrave; significantly higher than those of Tomb, the & egrave; true that when in a super-G found a challenging and an angled track route has always answered this, and the answer this meant or podium or, like last December in Beaver Creek, even victory, while the 'national super-G in Alberton and not memorize options never to the & agrave; the fourth place. Among the 'other Hirscher & egrave; also finished third in a super-G less technical and more & ugrave; as fast as that of a few weeks ago in Hinterstoder, just in the resort & agrave; in which five years ago was the 'only one suffered serious injury of his career, he blew up the World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It '' s true that Stenmark, Tomba as he had no sympathy at all for the speed & agrave; (He was third in a combined after virtually standing Streif in Kitzbuehel & uuml; hel nell''unica downhill of his career and fifth in a super-G), but the number of his victories in the World Cup, 86, & egrave; so disproportionate, plus & egrave; It was obtained in only two specialties & agrave ;, which makes us still feel the most & ugrave; strong skier ever though not perhaps the most & ugrave; Complete, including the 'other his cups of specialty & agrave; are well 16 and the general "only" three because & eacute; FIS changes memorize options Regulation to prevent him from continuing to dominate.
Detractors of Hirscher to memorize options ;, in comparison with Tomb, might say that s & igrave ;, & egrave; true it has won five absolute cups against, but Tomba has won five gold medals in the Olympics and World Championships and Hirscher only two, plus the second in fortunate circumstances for the fall with disqualification Ond & # 345; ej Bank in the combined downhill in past World that started the 'Austrian slalom first instead & eacute; for the thirty-first, and then has not the Olympic title in the neck. The speech luck, returning sull''infortunio Aksel Lund Svindal, we keep it aside for the piece that we will devote to Lara Gut, here let's just say you do not win a matter of luck alone total 39 races of the World Cup and two individual world Championship gold medals (including the 'other world medals there would also be two in the team competition, where Marcel has made a decisive contribution to the cause of Wunderteam). Intentionally omit the speech on the bib number 1, that the Marcel detractors say he always understood and that this is very fortunate, actually & agrave; quest''inverno did not & egrave; almost never allotted to the 'accuracy three times, one of which & egrave; It was at the Adelboden giant then deleted.
The episodes lucky, cos & igrave; as the unlucky ones, there are in the career of any athlete, simply have to be good to take advantage of favorable circumstances, if any, and be realized, then, we reiterate, Hirscher has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to win without counting sull''aiuto no luck indeed, this season without ever having virtually the number one beat his personal best of seasonal podiums, 19. Returning Olympic all''oro still missing from dell''austriaco board, & egrave; a banality & agrave; absolute say that Marcel will have & agrave; all possibilities & agrave; to fill this gap in Pyeongchang in 2018 especially if you do not limiter & agrave; to compete in giant slalom and if in these two years will improve & agrave; further its fast acceleration abilities, perhaps showing up at the departure of some down, as he himself has hinted he would like to do. Hirscher in the final super-G in St. Moritz that the 'saw fifth place itself has been shown to be improved exponentially in this specialty & agrave ;, so as to place itself in its sixth final ranking Cup despite not competing in three races out of eight.
If you really decide to become a multi-purpose, then s & igrave; you could make a comparison with the large multi-purpose the past that outweigh in number of victories, which by the 'other are very few, and this & egrave; Pirmin Zurbriggen 40, Marc Girardelli with 46 and Hermann Maier with 54 although Herminator & egrave; was a multi-purpose non-rounded because & eacute; in slalom does not & egrave; hardly ever ventured. Nor should we forget the others who, in addition to Zurbriggen and Girardelli, won in all five specialties & agrave; alpine skiing, and this & egrave; G & uuml; Günther Mader, Kjetil Andre Aamodt and Bode Miller but also those that have won everywhere when the super-G did not exist and when combined gave no points for the World Cup as Jean-Claude Killy, or who have won everywhere when there was the World Cup as Karl Schranz and especially Toni Sailer. Too complicated to make comparisons with these three giants, too far away their time, their materials and their physical preparation compared all''attualit & agrave ;. Surely Mader, Miller and even the same Aamodt, who also has more & ugrave; placings in the top ten of anyone else in the cup and the largest number of heavy medals around his neck but has only one absolute Cup on the bulletin board, must be considered one or even two steps (in the case of Mader) under Hirscher.
Holds more comparison with Zurbriggen and Girardelli. The Swiss, in addition to the World Championship gold medals and the Olympic downhill, you & egrave; brought home four crystal balls and & egrave; withdrawn just 27 all''apice career, definitely he could have continued to struggle with Girardelli that in his absence you & egrave; pocketed two Copponi coming to a total of five, the 'only one in the men's field to win so many before it equaled this season. The 'Austro-Luxembourg won them nell''arco nine winters instead of the five Hirscher, but on the' other side & egrave; It was the 'only one in the men's field to win at least one race of the World Cup in all specialties & agrave; during the same season, 1988-1989. In short, everyone can memorize options look at things from a verse or dall''altro and can memorize options considering the greater or lesser competition found by one rather than dall''altro, Hirscher certainly deserves to be at least on a par with Zurbriggen, Girardelli, Killy and the rest. We'll see what combiner & agrave; the next two years leading to the South Korean games but certainly its progress in speed & agrave; They should not just scare his opponents. If decider & agrave; to devote more & ugrave; Time to speed disciplines for others it could be the night, because & eacute; even in the super-G shows a confidence and stability & agrave; unmatched. In conclusion, the champion of Salzburg has no weaknesses and a multipurpose Hirscher sixth consecutive World Cup could be gi & agrave; booked.
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