Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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The brace in the descent on the Stelvio means the first seasonal success for the Wunderteam, still dry among the women. The Carinthian is now close to Kilde in the specialty cup, his great goal.
Wednesday 30 December 2020 4 minutes reading time
Austria is reborn in Bormio, or rather it saves itself from the fool of closing 2020 and the first part of the season without success, as has not happened for over thirty years.
Yesterday Katharina Liensberger went very close in the Semmering slalom, today the two leaders of the speed sector at Wunderteam took care of it. Matthias Mayer first and Vincent Kriechmayr second, just 4 cents behind his teammate in a thrilling descent on the Stelvio from every point of view, even for the very narrow gaps between the first. This time it went well for the Carinthian, his tenth seal in the World Cup (sixth downhill) and first on an ideal track for his characteristics (already on the downhill podium, two years ago he lost the possible success in Paris by 1 cent super-g), for 100 points that are also worth a lot in terms of crystal ball in the discipline, the goal declared by the two-time Olympic champion at the beginning of the season.
Now “Mothl” is at -32 from the red bib Aleksander Aamodt Kilde: “Obviously the relief is very great - said Mayer through the OESV press office - because the season has not started in an optimal way for me. There were often small mistakes, even yesterday in super-g, while today I did my best and everything worked.
The self-confidence for classics like Wengen and Kitzbuehel is obviously strengthened ”.
Considering the team triumph, Vincent Kriechmayr makes the best of a bad situation, again on the second step of the podium after the super-g, even if this time he missed a whisker to write 7 in the box of successes in CdM for the 29 year old from Bassa Austria. "Today it was easier to ski than in the test, so it was such a tight race - the explanation of Kriechmayr, in reference to the snowfall that however changed the track a bit after the weekend - The four cents from the win I lost them between the penultimate and the last intermediate, I was too clean in that stretch, but in general my descent was very good and I am fully satisfied ”.
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