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After the wedding, the Austrian champion sets short and long term goals: "First the crystal ball, then the end of his career with the Olympics in Italy".
Tuesday 9 June 2020 4 minutes reading time
He with the five circles has a certain feeling, testified by the double gold in two different disciplines between Sochi 2014, when he burned Christof Innerhofer for only 6 cents in the Olympic descent in Russia, and four years later in PyeongChang, where he painted an authentic masterpiece in super-g.
Matthias Mayer is the man of the Games, even if the last season of the World Cup made him make that further leap in quality in terms of continuity, what he has always lacked in the arc of a the whole year, also due to accidents; four victories, including the legendary one in the descent on the Streif, to reach 9 and also touch the crystal ball in super-g. Just a World Cup as soon as possible is one of the goals set by the Carinthian champion in the interview given to the Austrian federsci, on the occasion of the party for 30 years (with a sacher cake together with the OESV home manager, Andreas Puelacher, as note in the photo) which coincide with this June 9 and were anticipated by the wedding, celebrated in secret, with his Claudia.
The news, however, is the announcement by Mayer of wanting to end his career with his beloved Olympics, but not those of Beijing; at 35, if all goes well, the champion of the Wunderteam will be on the track for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games. "Yes, I have fixed that deadline, those Olympics will be fundamental in my path because I would like to conclude there. It would really be the best ”.
The bi Olympic champion has reviewed his almost ten-year journey in the World Cup: “At 21 I was inexperienced and certainly there were athletes superior to me. I learned a lot, also because of the stops due to injuries and for this reason it is much more worth having reached the top, obtaining results with consistency. I could never have dreamed of anything better than being in this position at the age of 30. "
Yet there is no lack of goals: “Winning the crystal ball, if possible the absolute one, is what I want to achieve. The next season? The quiet period is over, the last time I put my skis on March 7 in Kvitfjell (winning the last descent of the season, ed) and I'm training a lot of strength, to get back on the snow in the next few weeks. Marriage with Claudia was beautiful and important, we have been a couple for eight years now and we wanted to take this step ”.
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