Ski World Cup in Saalbach
DSV star frustrated after Slalom: “That was nothing”
15.02.2025 – 10:50 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.

The slalom of the women’s slalom is due on Saturday. Before the second run, US star Mikaela Shiffrin has a good chance of precious metal. The Germans were annoyed.
Mikaela Shiffrin waved into the camera. But after the first round in the slalom at the World Cup, the American and World Cup record holder also knew that she was still not back in her old top form after her injury break. Nevertheless, the 29-year-old is one of the favorites on precious metal. After the first run, Shiffrin is third behind the Swiss Camille Rast and the Austrian Katharina Liensberger.
ZDF expert Marco Büchel said about the first slalom run: “I basically did not expect second and third place. Liensberger has not recently presented himself well. Shiffrin was pleasantly surprised. the list. ” Shiffrin herself said to her run on ZDF: “It’s a great course, but it’s very challenging. It was fun, you have to be quick. It is totally important that you get your pace up.”
Lena Dürr could not convince. With a gap of almost two seconds, the German technician came to the finish line, racing, and has thus proven to be a fight for the second round. The DSV athlete is currently in eighth place.
Dürr said after the race: “I am not satisfied, it was very special. The conditions were very different from the last few days. Now I have to put everything in the second run again, that was nothing.”
Before you start you saw the German cough and with a handkerchief. She explained: “Yesterday I woke up sick, only in bed. Today I feel a little better, but nevertheless I have to try to drive two good runs here, it certainly didn’t fail.”
Even for Emma Aicher, not much ran round in the first round. The German talent made many mistakes – but then simply broke off and drove to the finish line without further tracing the course. At the time of arrived she buried her hands on her face. It was eliminated and will not be there in the second run (from 1:15 p.m. in the T-Online Livetecker).
