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reGerman ski riders suffered another setback at the Alpine World Cup and will have to adapt to a harder pace in training in the future. At the side event in Lech / Zürs on Thursday, the seven holders of the German Ski Association (DSV) missed the knockout phase. A 22nd place from the experienced Lena Dürr was not enough in the standings for the decisive streaks of the top 16 of the night. Already at the start of the season in the giant slalom in Sölden and more recently the weekend in two slaloms in Levi, the women of DSV were clearly behind the competition.
Parallel descent: the race track in Lech am Arlberg.
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“Here you had to drive to the limit, and we didn’t,” complained German Alpine chief Wolfgang Maier. The lack of aggressiveness and willingness to take risks is not new, so now training is changing. “There are only intensive time trials. In each training session you have to try to be the champion, ”Maier told the German press agency. The talent is there, the bite is missing. Other nations like Austria train harder just because of internal competition. “Less technical training, more competition training,” announced DSV sports director Maier.
Following the resignation of Viktoria Rebensburg, the top ten female drivers will be re-formed at tech events. Behind Dürr, Andrea Filser (28th) and Jessica Hilzinger (46th) clearly missed the final of qualifying in Lech / Zürs. Martina Ostler, Lisa Marie Loipetssperger, Fabiana Dorigo and Leonie Flötgen left.
Petra Vlhova finally won the final against the American Paula Moltzan and thus achieved the third consecutive victory in a World Cup. However, this hung by a thread: Moltzan achieved victory in the decisive race, but then slipped away and had to admit defeat to Vlhova. Lara Gut-Behrami from Switzerland was third ahead of Sara Hector from Sweden. American star Mikaela Shiffrin did not start a few days after he returned to train.
As a small saving grace, it was possible to cite that the parallel giant slalom in Vorarlberg, Austria also met other favorites such as the Swiss Wendy Holdener and Alice Robinson from New Zealand. “It was a relatively close race and it wasn’t just ours that fell by the wayside,” Maier said.
On Friday, the Germans try to do better. Stefan Luitz and Alexander Schmid had already shown their class in parallel giant slaloms last season: Luitz finished second in Alta Badia, Schmid third in Chamonix.
