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Vincent Kriechmayr, 2021 Alpine Skiing World Champion at Cortina dAmpezzo, that sounds like music to your ears. Almost exactly 20 years after his role model, mentor and friend Hannes Trinkl (St. Pankraz), who had triumphed in St. Anton on February 7, 2001, the big hour struck the compatriot from Upper Austria.
“I’m very proud. Of course I can remember how Hannes did it. That was great, especially downhill. For me it’s the Super-G, but that doesn’t matter,” Kriechmayr said, beaming after an emotional. Career in which he had lived up to his favorite role one hundred percent. Although with long tremors on the target. Because in the end it was a final beat, in the final accounts “Vinc” was seven hundredths ahead of the Tyrolean Romed Baumann, who is now heading to Germany. French off-roader Alexis Pinturault took bronze.
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Strong notes in the hymn
Many things are balanced in life. In 2019 at Aare, Kriechmayr, whose “World Cup paint” was finally three colors after bronze and silver two years ago, edged out gold by nine hundredths in the Super-G when Dominik Paris (Ita) won. Yesterday, the speed star turned the game around.
When the 29-year-old from Gramastettner was allowed or had to wear the gold medal himself at 3:18 p.m. because the crown pandemic did not allow for any other ceremony, he felt a tear or two of joy. He was not allowed to open the pompous bottle of Prosecco to the applause of his supervisors, coaches and teammates, who waved the red-white-red flag and defended his “Vinc”. Earplugs should only appear later at the “Hotel Bellevue” (“Nice view”).
Even if the red mask hid facial features on the podium, the World Cup reporters knew in advance what would happen behind her during the award ceremony. After his glorious journey, Kriechmayr announced that he would sing along with the hymn. “I always do that. When I won at Garmisch against Mothl (Mayer, note), we sang out loud and probably not that well. Then Marco Odermatt (a Swiss, note) laughed at us for that.”
Kriechmayr is a proud Austrian, and “Mhlviertel’s first world ski champion,” said Stefan Illek, SV journalist, with a nod, to the detailed portrait of the new Super G world champion.
Kriechmayr, who, according to SV men’s racing director Andreas Puelacher, “was insanely cool last night,” felt a burden on his heart. He had put pressure on himself as well as the one who wore the red jersey in this discipline and two-time winner of the season (Kitzbhel, Garmisch): “More than what could have come from outside.” Then his improvisational skills were in demand when he had to master the key step with the vertigo jump with flying colors after nearly 16 seconds with the number five (after the first three riders had failed).
“When I saw how they were eliminated one after another, I was very sweaty. You had to drive it with measure.” So not just energetically, but also smartly. Kriechmayr can do that like no other.
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Alexander Zambarloukos
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