Great World Cup opening, then the German alpine cat with a lot of criticism and without a pedestal. The previous half-time balance from the German Ski Alpin team looks sobering. Fortunately, the second half of the World Cup starts soon.
Oh, everything could have been so beautiful. The opening ceremony was not a tired yawn, but for Lena Dürr a spectacle, finely embedded in the team parallel competition: “I think that was quite good. Otherwise you think, I think, rarely from the opening ceremony. Accordingly, I think it is nice for the spectators here.”
Then came the big ski alpin cat. Most of the time it was said from a German perspective after the races “At that moment it fails at little things”As Linus Straßer said after the opening competition.
Whether in a team, in the Super-G or departure. While the Swiss and Austrians are slowly running out of the podium, German men’s coach Christian Schwaiger stirs in quiet water glass. The performance of the German men was, “If I should define it in three words, then really bad. Richtig bad. Two words. actually enough.”
No top 15 result in the men’s team. Four years ago in Italy there were two World Cup silver.
Also in women’s suit on half mast
The ski suit also hangs on half mast among German women. Kira Weidle-Winkelmann never really got cuddled with the World Cup slope. Place twelve. Risk of frost.
“Disappointing”stated Weidle-Winkelmann. “But I think I have to trust my skiing. It was not bad. And there are also a few more World Cup races. It is of course very, very shame that something like that at a World Cup then such a strange departuret is. “
From a German perspective, a “Schleicher”, on the other hand, was amazed. Emma Aicher’s feeling on the track even had the favorites swallow.
Maier: “Departure sport gets reasonably”
Sixth place also for alpind director Wolfgang Maier. A little mountain sun for the battered ski alpine soul. “If I see her now, I am convinced for the first time that she has understood the downhill sport. To some extent. It was not arrogant or pejorative. It was its nature. “
Second half of the World Cup from Tuesday
Part two of the Alpine Ski World Championship knocks on the door quietly-on Tuesday (11.02.2025) it starts from 10 a.m. with the team combination of women (in the live ticker). Germany is far from being beaten. And who knows, maybe the whole team will only really go into the downhill crop.