Marcel Hirscher: "I never want to get second"

Among the many stars present at the Atomic Day of Altenmarkt im Pongau at the traditional meeting with the media of the athletes of the prestigious Austrian brand there was, of course, the greatest of all, namely Marcel Hirscher.

Thursday 11 October 2018 4 minutes reading time

"I tried everything to rest a bit after the birth of my daughter even 48 hours after the news was already in the newspapers - says the seven-time winner of the World Cup and double Olympic champion in an interview with skiweltcup.tv -. I am always available to answer questions about my sport but I do not want my family members involved. "I never want to finish second - says the 29-year-old champion of Salzburger Land explaining his fantastic last season -. It's in my nature, I always want to give everything myself, no matter what I want to conquer. In training I'm not like that but everything changes in the race. The reason why I continue is simply the joy of racing. It excites me to fight to win when I compete and feel the adrenaline rise for this ". "When I said I had not yet reached my maximum I meant that I always try to improve myself. This does not mean that in the next season I will win 15 races, it would be absurd. Probably in giant I still have to improve my left corner. This means progress to me, anyone can do the same thing. Do the descents? No, it would not help me, I have to be honest, it would take me three or four years to get the right support with my feet and it's a project that would take five to six years, I'm not ready for it. " "SÃ¶lden is fast approaching - answers Marcel to a question about how well he is prepared for the opening round of the season - and like every year I'm here to say that I'm not ready yet, but the race will come soon and no time I can stop it, and the experience helps me: putting on the boots and the coveralls and hoping things will be like last winter, I have trained well but we are still looking for winter snow ". "At this moment, for the next two weeks that are missing the seasonal debut, no reasonable preparation is possible given the high temperatures. It is certainly not easy to find good conditions but all athletes have this problem. For now quality is not in the foreground, it does not help that we collect ski days on bad slopes. One must only train as regularly as possible. I hope, if we have patience, to have good training days before SÃ¶lden. "My goals for the next season? I do not know them. What I know is that the stopwatch is zero. In SÃ¶lden I will see how far I am, as always, and if I can have the chance to fight for the World Cup. But now it's too early "concludes Hirscher who, as always, is very skilled at hiding and then regularly beating his opponents on the track ...

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