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Three races, three golds!
On just one occasion, Austrian skiers won the first three gold medals in a major event: Toni Sailer won in giant slalom, slalom and downhill at the 1956 Olympics in Cortina. 65 years later the place is the same, the protagonists are Vincent Kriechmayr and Marco Schwarz.
“I don’t know what to say,” ÖSV men’s chief Andreas Puelacher was speechless at first. “Let’s stay on the ground. We also have a bit of luck, it’s fair to say. The hundredths we missed in the World Cup have just come back,” he says of Vincent Kriechmayr’s small lead on the descent (1 hundredths) and Marco Schwarz. in the combination (4 hundredths).
“However, it must be said that the boys are doing great things. That can only be happy,” explains Puelacher. Not even in the best times of the ÖSV miracle team around Hermann Maier, Stephan Eberharter and co. Had there been such a great start in international championships.
And the World Cup still offers some opportunities to expand the medal collection. “We can also do well in the giant slalom because we are not that far off,” said ÖSV president Peter Schröcksnadel. “They can do one as a team and of course we can do one in slalom.” The next gold medal would be the 100th for the ÖSV in the history of the World Ski Championships.
Combined advantage for black: “Super-G too easy, slalom difficult”
Kombi-Gold wasn’t exactly expected in advance. Puelacher’s top favorite was also Alexis Pinturault, and Schwarz eventually edged out the Frenchman by four hundredths of a second to silver. “I think I laid the first stone in the Super-G. With the new system, of course, it played a little better for me as the Super-G was a good success,” said Schwarz, referring to the exit rule. He says that the fastest of the speed part can open the slalom. Carinthian had finished fifth with a maximum time and therefore had the desired low start number.
Puelacher said the pure speed specialists were clearly at a disadvantage. “The Super-G was too easy, you could see it and the slalom was difficult in these conditions,” he said. The FIS doesn’t really manage to treat both sides equally. “Since 2015, since I have been the boss, every slalom in the World Championship has been a catastrophe. Now the conditions have been good for the first time,” said the Tyrolean.
“It would have been different if we had driven on the men’s side. That was lucky for ‘Blacky’,” he commented on the uniformity of the women’s Olympia delle Tofane.
Black is still above all doubt, its consistency only in slalom is impressive for Puelacher. This winter, with victories in Adelboden and Schladming, the 25-year-old “developed again. His personality has matured and you can see what will come of it.” Schwarz was happy with the whole team: “The third gold medal in the World Cup for us is really exceptional.”
Ladies are still out of precious metals
So far, Austrian women have had no reason to celebrate at this World Cup. After three applications, the medal count is still empty.
“It is not easy. But no athlete, no coach makes a stupid abuse of women,” revealed Puelacher when asked. Her female counterpart Christian Mitter liked the combination of Ramona Siebenhofer’s slalom performance, who saved fifth place optically not bad with the fourth fastest time.
Against the overwhelming power of Mikaela Shiffrin, Petra Vlhova and Michelle Gisin, “We already knew it would be difficult. But I think Ramona did the best she could, especially in the slalom. It was pretty good,” Mitter said. In the Super-G, the Styrian should have lost about a second and a half to the eventual winner Shiffrin, that was not realistic.
Throughout the World Cup, ÖSV women have been without a medal in ten individual competitions.
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