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The sad premiere
Twelve years after the retirement of Hahnenkamm record winner Didier Cuche, his cousin Rémi also made his debut on the most brutal descent in the world. Unlike his uncle, the 23-year-old from Neuchâtel has no luck in Kitzbühel. During the second training run, he suffered a heavy blow shortly before ascending the steep slope, and Rémi waved away with her face contorted in pain. Didier Cuche sheds a few tears in the finish area and thinks “that Rémi tore the cruciate ligament in his left knee and injured his meniscus.” Although Rémi Cuche was examined in Switzerland at the end of last week, the final diagnosis is still pending. “After reviewing the MRI images, the doctors do not agree,” head coach Tom Stauffer reveals.
The historic Austrian bankruptcy
As much as Austrian women currently excel in the speed disciplines, their results in the technical disciplines are just as poor. In Jasna, not a single ÖSV athlete reached the rankings in the giant slalom – that has not happened since 1985. And there is also no top 10 place in the slalom. As for the 2025 home world championship in Saalbach, Alpine boss Herbert Mandl is not kidding himself: “It is no longer sustainable. We will have to make do with this team and keep working.” Austria has already lost the lead in the women’s national rankings – the Swiss fire up the turbo, take the lead and have a lead of 254 points.
The most violent crash
With three Olympic gold medals (downhill in 2014, super-G in 2018 and 2022), Matthias Mayer is one of the outstanding athletes in alpine history. But since the last week of Kitzbühel there has been a serious stain on his name. At a reception for the governor of Lower Austria, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Mayer went completely crazy. According to witness statements, he insulted several people and plied them with alcohol. Blick knows that ‘Mothl’ has called the police several times in similar actions in his hometown of Carinthia over the past two years. And on the evening before the scandal in Kitzbühel, Ski Austria representatives had to restrain Mayer so that he would not offend star guest Arnold Schwarzenegger at the famous “Stanglwirt” in Going. The ÖSV, which hired the two-time Hahnenkamm winner as a team mentor after his dismissal thirteen months ago, explains in a statement that Mayer “has been suffering from health problems for years.” However, for the 33-year-old’s personal protection, the diagnosis will not be made public.
Sea of tears after Vlhova’s shock
30,000 Slovak spectators will be ready on Saturday to cheer local hero Petra Vlhova to victory. But the euphoria turns into a sea of tears: the Olympic champion falls and tears her cruciate ligament. She waves to the fans in the rescue sleigh and is then flown to hospital by helicopter. The Slalom World Cup has practically been decided, Mikaela Shiffrin wins for the 95th time on Sunday and pulls away. Vlhova is now in Switzerland, where she will probably undergo surgery in the coming days.
ORF expert in the hospital
In 2007, Nicole Hosp became world champion in giant slalom in Are (Sd). 17 years later, the now 40-year-old ORF expert seriously injured her knee during her huge tracking shot in Jasna – she suffered a meniscus injury. “Unfortunately it happens so quickly, but I am on the road to recovery. The meniscus has been repaired and the rest will be visible,” she wrote on Instagram after the operation. We remember: SRF commentator Marco Felder also had a hard time: he fell during a visit to St. Moritz and has been on crutches ever since. Did someone say ski race coverage is harmless?
The glorious duet
Marco Odermatt and Cyprien Sarrazin delivered one of the most memorable duels in downhill history on Saturday. Although the man from Nidwalden in number 7 put in a ride that was judged “unbeatable” by the old masters Bernhard Russi and Franz Klemm, the crazy Frenchman in number 8 was nine-tenths faster. The two also turned out to be congenial at the after-race party at “The Londoner”: late in the evening, in the cult bar in the heart of Kitzbühel, Odermatt and Sarrazin fervently sang the national anthems with their naked torsos. This moment particularly touched former Grisons Streif hero Dani Mahrer (62, Hahnenkamm winner in 1989): “We used to go wild in London after the descent on the Streif. It’s great that the boys continue this tradition.”
Gut-Behrami just wants to leave
The giant slalom in the Low Tatras will go down in history because of the enormous distances. The partly icy slope is “nice to ride” for power woman Sara Hector (30, SD) and she wins with confidence. Almost everyone else is served, some seem to be hobby drivers. Lara Gut-Behrami is 4.49 seconds behind in 6th place and says: “These gaps are crazy. The only positive thing is that I’m going home safely.”
The downhill king among the “Zig-Zackers”
As a racing driver, Beat Feuz did not win a single World Cup point in the slalom. The Olympic downhill champion gave convincing commentary on the Kitz Slalom for SRF on Sunday. However, the Emmentaler admits that he needed a longer preparation time for this. “I know almost all the downhill riders personally. This is not the case with slalom. Therefore, before the broadcast from Ganslernhang, I needed a certain amount of time until I could pronounce certain names correctly,” admits the “Kugelblitz”.
Rast doesn’t drive, she races
Camille Rast is only 9 hundredths short of the podium in the slalom and finishes fourth. “That irritates me,” she says. But that’s not necessary. Because: the woman from Valais puts on a show especially in the second round and throws her best run in the snow. No one, not even Shiffrin, can keep up. “Now I have to show two runs like this in Soldeu, then I will be on the podium,” she says. We certainly wouldn’t mind.
Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
