The'' evolution'' of Austria in recent years more and less successful in slalom downhill

Austria men's slalom, thanks to the success of Marcel Hirscher in Levi, as we have said has reached a historic achievement: it is the first nation to reach 100 as the number of victories between the poles close to the World Cup. Far, in second place, is Italy at 72.

Monday 18 November 2013 4 minutes reading time

The interesting thing to note though is that 100 of these successes, as many as 78 were obtained from winter 1992-93, that is, in the last 21 seasons, 22 with this just started, while there were 26 in the previous were only 22! For goodness sake, even in the pre World Cup, the Austrians have been strong in slalom, so much so that from 1952 to 1964 have won four consecutive Olympic titles in the specialty, but all the fans know that they care about the race more is the descent, in particular the descent of KitzbÃ¼hel to their triumph on the Streif is like winning an Olympic gold medal or world, indeed, perhaps more. Yet especially in recent seasons this turnaround is evident from the 2006-07 Wunderteam male has won 13 runs, 13 super-G, 14 giant slalom and well 32, the latter thanks to great champions like Benni Raich, Mario Matt, Reinfried Herbst , Manfred Pranger and Marcel Hirscher. It is not enough, in the women's field of 82 victories in slalom collected by the Austrian, exactly half, 41 (though of these, 33 are Marlies Schild!), Were obtained from the 2003-04 season onwards and at the same time there were 18 successes in giant, super-G 23 and 15 runs, but with a fast in speed events that lasted from 6 December 2009 until January 7, 2012! It 'obvious that the Austrian federsci not care anymore especially the descent but only grow and improve in all disciplines boys and girls to do Wunderteam a winning team in the round, in all specialties and in all conditions of race. And this work is paying off especially in slalom where the results of the last years among men than among women we have listed them and are there for all to see. It 'nice to remember that Andrea Massi, the coach-boyfriend of Tina Maze, in SÃ¶lden in an informal chat with some colleagues said that the only team in the world where you could go to coach Austria. It is certainly not by chance that a person like him who believes in private teams have said such a thing ...

Max Valle

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