Weather spoils the party
Thick fog! Super-G in Garmisch in doubt
Fog and deteriorating slope conditions prevented the men's Ski World Cup Super-G from taking place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Even after waiting for some time, visibility on the Kandahar slope did not improve, and at 12:15 p.m. the race was canceled. According to FIS Race Director Markus Waldner, the race will be rescheduled for Friday, March 13, in Courchevel. The last speed event before the World Cup finals in Kvitfjell will therefore be a triple race with two Super-G and one downhill.
It rained in Garmisch on Sunday. After that, fog rolled in. "There was practically no chance; you couldn't even see a gate," Waldner said on ORF. "In addition, the slope had given way a bit in a few places due to all the manipulation with pretzel salt. It would have been too dangerous."
Saturday's downhill race resulted in a Swiss triple victory. Marco Odermatt won ahead of Alexis Monney and Stefan Rogentin. Odermatt also leads comfortably in the downhill and super-G rankings. Only Vincent Kriechmayr from Upper Austria, who finished fourth and was the only Austrian in the top 20, prevented an ÖSV debacle.
"It's not good enough"
"Apart from Vinc, there's nothing to be satisfied with. With our start numbers, places between 10 and 20 would have been realistic, but we didn't manage that either," explained ÖSV head coach Marko Pfeifer. Since Kitzbühel, the speed team has been lagging even further behind its own expectations than before. There were no medals in the downhill and super-G at the Olympics either.
"We got off to a good start – both in the World Cup and the European Cup. Under certain conditions, it now seems that we really can't get anywhere," said Pfeifer. He sees factors that need to be questioned. "Whether it's training or equipment tuning, we may need to do our homework even better. It's not working."
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