"We are in lockdown, then we find the English virus". The Austrians prepare Flachau amid controversy

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"We are in lockdown, then we find the English virus". The Austrians prepare Flachau amid controversy

Manuel Feller openly criticizes the handling of the "Jochberg case" which cost the two slaloms in Kitzbuehel (there is confidence instead for the fast races on the Streif). Schwarz: "Nothing will change for me after the victory."

There is excitement in Austria, after what happened with the move to Flachau of the first two of the five races rescheduled in Kitzbuehel, or the slalom that will then be staged on Saturday and Sunday on the “Hermann Maier Weltcup Strecke”. With the races scheduled from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 on the Streif which, in the current state of the situation, remain confirmed given that the Jochberg outbreak would have been limited in time, there is no shortage of controversy regarding what happened with the cluster in the locality a stone's throw from Kitz, apparently caused by the mutated British virus. Manuel Feller, who had already underlined how now we will find ourselves with four slaloms on slopes that are too simple for the men's sector (with prompt response from the Austrian girls' director, Christian Mitter), between the "doubles" of Flachau and Chamonix, underlined how athletes feel “happy to compete and privileged to be allowed to do their job, while the country is in lockdown and then finds itself with 18 English carrying this virus. What should Viennese think that they have to stay in their apartment? ”, The Tyrolean told the Kronen Zeitung. A management, exactly as happened in Wengen, costing a historic appointment like the one on the “Ganslern”; if Feller has not sent them to say, the new leader of the slalom cup, Marco Schwarz (who, winning in Adelboden, inherited the red bib from his teammate), focuses on the two races in Flachau. “For me nothing has changed with the first success in slalom, Saturday and Sunday we will start from scratch. I will certainly aim for the podium again, this is the "goal".
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