"I won’t meet many more important people to whom i will shake hands," said feuz after the general rehearsal at the alpine resort of krasnaya poljana. "It’s great to celebrate a victory on your birthday, and on the olympic track too."
"Oh, it’s the beat’s birthday too?", asked andreas sander from ennepetal, surprised and hurried after his strong ride on the 16. Room to the swiss to congratulate twice over. At the first world cup in the mountain resort of krasnaja poljana, feuz won his third race of the season ahead of canadian benjamin thomsen and adrien theaux from france.
With a good chance of winning the small ball in the super-combination on sunday, there was only little time left for a good party on his 25th birthday. Birthday. "Maybe there will be a reason to celebrate again", the skier from emmental said. He is 16 points behind ivica kostelic in the combined world cup, and with only 50 points left in the overall world cup, he is putting pressure on the croatian in the fight for the rough ball.
Stephan keppler, on the other hand, could not even get to the start. In the premiere training, the ebinger had injured his knee again and had to pass with an inflammation of the patella tendon. "He couldn’t even do squats this morning," reported alpine director wolfgang maier, "there was no point, on this run you have to be at 100 percent."
As in training, the course, which was completely redesigned by swiss bernhard russi, received overwhelmingly positive evaluations from the athletes and coaches. "It’s a very spectacular slope," said feuz, "the only thing is, you just have to adjust the course setting for olympics."Also maier felt the slope as "olympiawurdig. It is one of the most difficult courses in the world cup. From us there is no criticism, rather absolute agreement."
While sander was briefly upset that he missed his best career result by only 0.04 seconds, the 24-year-old thomsen was unboundedly happy about his first world cup podium. "I’m still shocked," he said, when the finish area had long since emptied in front of the mountain panorama of the north caucasus. And at the award ceremony, feuz revealed what the surprise runner-up had whispered to him. "Do you know what the first thing thomsen said at the finish line was?? "Wow, now i’m finally out of a summer job!""During the world cup break thomsen always had to work – mostly as a bricklayer – because his job as a skier did not pay enough for him.
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