Philipp Schörghofer ready to return

Due to a right knee injury, the 35-year-old Austrian gigantist from Salzburg was forced to completely miss the Olympic winter, the last time he competed was March 18, 2017 in the giant of the Aspen World Cup finals. Although the race on the Rettenbach arrives a little early for it to be at its best and still has room for improvement, the Austrian veteran wants to again feel the racing atmosphere on the Tyrolean glacier. "Of course last season was anything but easy," says Schörghofer, "big knee problems, the hope of being at the start again until I flew home before the Olympic giant and I had to resign myself to not being so I had time to take care of my knee.The big goal is to be in Sölden, I trained well and I'm super happy with my new brand of ski, Augment (which three months ago announced its landing abandoning Fischer , ed) ".