A few years ago one of them even drove past Odermatt: These are the Swiss ski misery

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At first glance, everything is going perfectly in the Swiss men’s team. Marco Odermatt is achieving one success after another: at the Super-G in Bormio, all Swiss ski athletes were in the top 30. And at the slalom in Adelboden, five fellow skiers placed in the top 15. But there are also a few misfortunes . And the team management puts a knife to their neck. Walter Reusser, CEO Sport of Swiss Ski, told Blick: “We have a few athletes who need to ask themselves whether they are on the right track. These people have to think about what they can do better every night before they go to bed.” Blick names four racers whose futures on the Swiss ski team are particularly shaky.

At almost 31 years old, the St. Gallen native and Justin Murisier (32) are the seniors of the Swiss downhill team. In his eleven-year World Cup career, Weber has achieved two top ten results (tenth in Santa Caterina in 2014, tenth in Wengen in 2020). The 2012 Super-G Junior World Champion impresses with his enormous training effort, but has been repeatedly held back by injuries. The extremely intelligent family man always finds that he does not dare to push himself to the limit. But what exactly should Weber do, otherwise he has no chance compared to the young wildlings in the selection selections in the spring.

The World Cup story of the trained carpenter from St. Stephan BE started five years ago as a fairy tale: a few weeks after winning the downhill at the Junior World Championships, Rösti finished 15th in the points during the World Cup finals in Andorra. Since then, the speed specialist has only placed in the top 30 three times. For this season, Rösti wanted to give his career a new boost by switching ski brands from Rossignol to Stöckli. The desired effect has not yet been achieved: the 25-year-old finished 54th in Val Gardena and 49th in Bormio. This means that the Bernese Oberlander is under particular pressure during his home race on the Lauberhorn. And Rösti does not associate very fond memories with the longest descent in the world. Last year he fell at the Brüggli-S.

As a junior, the man from Nidwalden regularly raced against Marco Odermatt, who was three months older than him. Bissig also made a big impact at the highest level in 2020. After fifth place at the Parallel Giant in Lech, he also placed in the top 15 at the Giant Classic on the Gran Risa. But since tearing his cruciate ligament in the summer of 2021, Bissig has not really gotten going. The start of this season was a complete failure: in Val-d’Isère and Alta Badia the giant slalom specialist was eliminated in the first round and in Adelboden he clearly missed qualifying for the second run. At Swiss Ski there are more and more people who secretly claim that Bissig focuses too much on the golf course and not enough on the ski slopes. His handicap of 0 proves that Semyel actually spends a lot of time in golf. Blick still believes that Bissig can turn the corner again as a ski racer. His potential is too great for such an abrupt end to his career.

The son of a bus driver from Tiefencastel GR actually has everything he needs for a great skiing career: he has a very fast swing, impresses with great training and is in top physical shape. He demonstrated how fast he can ski with a third place at the Slalom World Cup in Chamonix in 2021. But Simonet’s failure rate is far too high. Of the last thirteen starts in the World Cup, the Graubünden native has qualified for the second round only twice. Simonet is a very intelligent guy. There are insiders who claim that the 28-year-old studies too much for his matches. Perhaps Simonet should take the following sentence from Alberto Tomba (It, 57, 50 World Cup victories) to heart: “If you think about the finish at the start of the slalom, you will never reach it…”

Source : Blick