Ski racer Linus Straßer narrowly missed his third World Cup victory of the season.
In the slalom in Palisades Tahoe, California, the man from Munich came third behind the Austrian Manuel Feller and Noel Clement from France. Straßer was still in the lead by four tenths of a second after the first round.
In the end, Straßer was 0.38 seconds behind Feller, who extended his lead in the discipline World Cup to 590 points. The 31-year-old Straßer (386) is still second.
Straßer had previously won the Slalom World Cups in Kitzbühel and Schladming, and in the USA he could have caught up with big names.
The last time Thomas Dreßen, who resigned at the beginning of the year, achieved three German victories in one season was in 2019/20; Felix Neureuther achieved three victories in the slalom from January to March 2014.