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Nearly 1.3 million ski fans watched the Streif downhill race on television Sunday. Today, the ORF will achieve even better ratings, because the night race in Schladming (5.40 / 8.40 pm) is traditionally a television attraction.
In the time of Marcel Hirscher, nearly two million Austrians watched the victorious races of the superstar. The next generation is in no way inferior to the eight-time World Cup winner this winter. Austria currently has the strongest slalom team in the world, Marco Schwarz and Manuel Feller, who celebrated their first World Cup victory in Stangenwald this season, also lead the discipline standings.
“The main focus is of course on myself that my ski is correct,” says Leader Schwarz. “But when you have the biggest competitors on your own team, you have to look a little left and right.”
Ideally he and his colleagues shouldn’t look back to 2020 – at that time, the night race for ÖSV slalom riders ended in bitter disappointment, Michael Matt was the best in 15th place.
