After his tenth World Cup victory Felix Neureuther is the most successful German skiers.
He was able to train little in preparation.
Click here for the result in Madonna di Campiglio to the World Cup stands.
From John Knuth
Felix Neureuther looked a little clueless to the ground. How could he best put into words, this series on Monday night at the night slalom in Madonna di Campiglio? The now Neureuther had not simply won his first World Cup of the season.
He had settled impressively from the competition in the second run, eight-tenths of seconds separated him from his also impressively strong teammates Fritz Dopfer, more than a second from Austria Marcel Hirscher, the Seventh, the far superior technicians of winter. This Neureuther, 30 was entered with some weeks late in the season, the back had repeatedly forced him to rest. And now, more than a second ahead of the rest of the world?
Neureuther seemed a little of yourself to be surprised when he spoke about his performance. “Even if I do not feel good in training or the day before, I do not know,” Neureuther said he searched for words, then he said, “. In the race is just this feeling as”
This feeling had now carried him like a wave of the valley, to his tenth victory in the World Cup. The course weighed slightly heavier than a standard World Cup triumph. Mark Wasmund had won in his career, nine World Cups, seven Armin Bittner, Christian Neureuther, Felix’s father, six. Neureuther junior is now so signed and sealed the most successful German skier in the World Cup business. “Is indeed beautiful, but relatively few statistics I’m interested in,” he said. He seemed happy and exhausted, drawn by one year of experience with which one could probably make a separate annual review in the TV evening program.
The slalom victory in Madonna he has Mark Wasmund obsolete
Before departure to the Olympics Neureuther had come with his car on a patch of ice and rushed into a guardrail. Neureuther traveled with a makeshift recovering from whiplash to Sochi, he struggled to eighth place in the giant slalom, slalom he was on his way to a medal, a threaded, resigned. “One of the most miserable weeks of my career,” summed Neureuther.
For the season finale in Lenzerheide, he came as the leader in the slalom standings. Mike Pircher, Hirscher’s coach, put the first run, he put it so that the athlete was especially favored with start number one. Hirscher was the One, the Three Neureuther. At the end of the Austrians won the race and slalom World Cup. In the summer Neureuther shot during strength training a pain by chronic maladen back, he put his preparation largely silent, the opener in Soelden he let out. Before his first race in Levi he arranged that he had hardly taken slalom hours that maybe he could get 70 percent of its work force. He was third.
It is quite amazing with what consistency is Neureuther has already queued in the world’s best, like a student who still writes best marks with little learning curve. In six races, he left again, otherwise he was eighth, fifth, third, second, first. The past eight slalom race ended Neureuther always on the podium, seasonally across. “A Madness series,” says Mathias Berthold
Berthold works in the German Ski Association (DSV) since the summer as head coach of the men he had in the fall, when Neureuther isolated slalom units noticed. “The Felix had then a good feeling. ” This feeling so that cited Neureuther Madonna, this feeling that nothing can happen in a race, no matter how icy the slope, how bad was the preparation. “The Felix does also not a lot of training,” said Berthold, “he still has a lot of substance in recent years.”
Neureuther was once regarded as a driver who does not retrieve his skills at major events – periods which he has long since left behind. He has most of the components of racing balanced, skis, boots, bindings, psyche. Thanks to this balance is Neureuther has acquired an impressive matter of course in competition mode, you could also say that a good feeling. Neureuther has learned what dose aggressiveness can withstand a ride. In the second race he usually improves, rather than over-tighten as before, which has earned him a World Championship silver medal in Schladming and now ten World Cup victory.
In the DSV sometimes wonder what would be possible would Neureuther a full-fledged preparations to join. You see how Hirscher years juxtaposing the overall World Cup victories and medals, and Berthold is sure: “The Felix would also be able to.” Next February, they distribute in Vail / USA World Cup a few plaques after New Year the hot phase of the preparation begins. Neureuther they will tackle with a good feeling.
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