Lara Gut-Behrami explains the mysterious removal of the giant slalom in Lenzerheide – no protests

“I think at the end of the season it is more and more difficult for everything to fit. I was fighting all morning. I still wanted to drive and try it. I was hoping that the adrenaline would help me when I was at the beginning. But when the second goal, I realized it would be any anything but a safe descent, “said the overall winner of the 2016 World Cup, who believed the risk of injury was too high:

“It is more important to me that I end the season healthy. It happened to me once that I felt this way and I tried it anyway. I broke my cruciate ligament. I preferred to swing before the third goal instead of swinging to fall in the seventh.” and that something bad is going to happen. “

In an interview with “SRF” he even spoke of “voices in his head” saying: “It’s too much, it doesn’t work anymore.”

A decision that caused a stir. Especially since Gut-Behrami failed to position himself at the finish line and left the experts lost.

Gut-Behrami casts aside speculation about the protest

At the “ARD”, former slalom champion Felix Neureuther suspected that the Swiss could protest.

“I’ve never seen anything like this. Either it was a refusal to work, a protest, she didn’t feel like it, or it just got lost. They won’t eliminate you like this,” Neureuther analyzed and suggested targeted action. “Either it goes against the Swiss Ski Federation, the organizers or the FIS. You can do anything.”

A few days ago, the 29-year-old criticized the FIS racing calendar in clear words. “The fairness is different,” he said after relegation and the Super-G in the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide were canceled without replacement. This reduced the speed specialist’s chances of winning the World Cup. Now the Petra Vlhová technique has won her.

Gut-Behrami: “It’s hard to think clearly after today”

But Sunday’s race interruption has nothing to do with any of this, because Gut-Behrami is very satisfied with his season: “I am driving at the same level as before and I am at the forefront. That is what I have always hoped for. And what I’ve worked for. With two gold medals and my Super-G season, I would have signed for that. And that’s why I would also sign each subsequent season. “

But now the Swiss woman first needs to get away from skiing to prepare for the next World Cup season: “I should go back to snow in April. But it’s hard to think straight after such a season and after today. Now At least I will take it “. Two weeks off and then I would like to go back to the snow. But that also depends on how I feel physically.