Gli austriaci di punta premiati dal governo. Tutti i fari su Hirscher: 'Deciderò in estate'

Alpine Skiing

The leading Austrians awarded by the government. All headlights on Hirscher: "Decider in summer"

The medalists and cup winners received by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. The ruler of world skiing has yet to decide his future, but filters optimism about the continuation of his career

Wednesday 3 April 2019 3 minutes reading time

From Marcel Hirscher to Nicole Schmidhofer, through the world medalists Michael Matt and Marco Schwarz, and many other protagonists of the winter sports of Austria. The axes of the Wunderteam were welcomed this afternoon in Vienna, for the usual meeting with the related end-of-season awards by the government; Chancellor Sebastian Kurz met the athletes, led by OSV presidentissimo Peter Schrocksnadel, along with sports minister Heinz-Christian Strache. All the spotlights, of course, were on the winner of the last 8 World Cups, to see if he would have revealed anything more about his competitive future. Hirscher is certainly not a character from twists and, as he had underlined again in the previous days, "the decision will not be taken before the summer. I have to understand the reactions of my body and how far I can push myself again ". What filters from the environment near the star of Annaberg, indicates how probable the continuation of the career, at least for another season, with management in the coming months similar to that of last spring-summer, when Hirscher spoke to the media, in the first days of July, confirming only at that moment that he would continue. In the evening of Thursday, meanwhile, Marcel should win for the umpteenth time the prize for best sportsman of the Salzburg for the last season, with a novelty compared to the previous editions: the Leonidas Sports Gala, scheduled in Salzburg, will also see dad Ferdinand running for the coach of the year award ...

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