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Marcel Hirscher held a press conference today in Raiffeisen headquarters in Vienna and of course the main issue that interested the media was that of his competitive future. Here is what he replied.
Tuesday 19 March 2019 3 minutes reading time
"Unfortunately I have to disappoint your expectations, today I cannot tell you if my choice will be A or B. The season has ended for not even 48 hours, to ask me if I withdraw or if I continue when these 48 hours will have passed for some time would be better. And in any case the percentage is perhaps 49% (withdrawal, ed) and 51% (the continuation of the career, ed).
"Recovery will take several days this year - continues Hirscher -. Since the World Championships in Are, you have already noticed that this season has cost me a lot of energy and now I am very tired. This was also seen in the season finale. As a result, I want to see how the rest progresses after 10 years of the Ski World Cup. It is very clear that I will have to be able to put a piece in it, so I have to see how I will arrive in the summer, at that moment I will understand if I will be able to dispute physically and mentally another season. The big difference for me is not just making the races, it's just doing them to win the cups. If you want to compete for the general World Cup you must prepare accordingly. "
"I'm more of the emotional man who says" Okay, the joy is back, "or not, so I have to make a decision myself." In deciding, I too do not want to wait too long for the people who accompanied me for 10 years of the Ski World Cup, so the decision on my future should come very soon. Stop at the most beautiful? I myself often asked myself this question, fortunately I never followed this philosophy. Otherwise I would have had to stop in Schladming in 2012 "concludes Hirscher.
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