Kilde’s “Battle Line”
The Norwegian got off to a brave start and was on an absolute battle line in the first section of the course with the spectacular jump on the Hundschopf. Here Mikaela Shiffrin’s friend laid the foundation for his second win of the season in the downhill.
Feuz is hoping for a second descent on Saturday
The two Swiss local heroes Marco Odermatt and Beat Feuz did not quite come close to his time (1: 42.42 minutes). Odermatt, who was still the surprise winner in the Super-G at the same place on Thursday, showed once again that he is currently doing almost everything. Although he came from the giant slalom and was at the start in Wengen for the very first time, he was relaxed and relaxed and was only 0.19 seconds behind Kilde at the finish.
Downhill World Cup winner Beat Feuz, who had won the last three downhill runs on the Lauberhorn, finished third, three tenths of a second behind. In this form he must again be considered one of the top favorites over the long distance on Saturday.
DSV quintet far behind
The performance of the German speed drivers was disappointing: Dominik Schwaiger was still the best DSV athlete with a deficit of 1.89 seconds. None of the DSV quintet made it into the top 20.
“At the moment the worm is in there. Unfortunately I noticed it today, that’s very disappointing”, said Andreas Sander (Ennepetal/+ 2.76). “It would be a mistake to change everything now. I think I have to keep calm, even if it’s not that easy right now.” This also applies to Romed Baumann (Kiefersfelden) and Josef Ferstl (Hammer), who also ended up far behind after fourth and sixth place in the Super-G on Thursday.
Simon Jocher (Garmisch) with the high start number 40 could not get the coals out of the fire either. It was a used day for the DSV downhill racers.
Status: 01/14/2022, 2:11 p.m