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In the downhill fight for the ball, Beat Feuz threatens to suffer a setback at Saalbach. The weather-related race cancellation a little later suited him perfectly. Marco Odermatt offers entertainment without even driving.
Beat Feuz made a flying start on the first descent from Saalbach and was ahead of Dominik Paris at the first intermission. Then the Emmentaler continually loses time, until at the finish line the gap with the impressive Italian grows to more than a second.
“Unfortunately, I have the feeling that the conditions are very difficult, very different conditions,” Feuz said in an interview with SRF, noting that the weather conditions are not quite good. “The trip was not perfect, I could already feel it. But I took a risk and I had the feeling that I could take the train, especially from the middle to the finish line. I am accumulating a lot of time there, the (drivers) after me have lost much more », says Feuz. Their skis would have stuck to the snow. “If you do an analysis there, you can probably see that the early drivers had slightly less sticky conditions.”
Mayer: “It wouldn’t have been fair anymore”
After nine riders, Feuz is in fourth place, behind Paris, Kriechmayr and also behind his worst competitor in the fight for the Downhill World Cup, Matthias Mayer. Before the race, the Austrian is only 48 points behind Feuz and seems to be able to make up ground. Until the increasing snow and fog foil his plans.
However, the decision to cancel the race at 1 pm is the only correct decision for Mayer as well. “It’s full of fog, it certainly wouldn’t have been fair to the other athletes anymore, also because it will be dangerous. That’s right ”, he says in an interview with ORF. After all, Mayer already has the next chance to get close to Feuz on Saturday at the second scheduled outing (11am).
Odermatt makes people laugh
Marco Odermatt has to look forward to this too, that he won’t even get off the track on Friday with start number 16. After all, the man from Nidwalden seems to be having a good time with Carlo Janka and Christof Innerhofer as he waits in the area of exit.
When the trio captured by the cameraman looks at himself on a monitor, Odermatt can be heard: “The mic has been relatively loud since this year,” he jokes, and it’s not just SRF expert Marc Berthod who makes a smile: “You point out that we listen to everything.”
What Odermatt alludes to in all likelihood: Lara Gut-Behrami was recently “heard” in a similar situation, which caused quite a stir. Either way, thanks to Odermatt, relegation aces are forewarned.
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