no, he didn’t want to stop. Not with a ranking outside the Top 30 and the abound. Patrick Küng is the proud champion of 2015, he is the winner of Wengen 2014. The sporty crash, followed, liked, accept the Glarner never. So he took this Winter, once again calls. After nine years with Salomon, he joined the chandlers, was this season on Fischer skis, and he joined the training group in order to Simon Roth, bühler, with whom he had worked in previous years. Küng went away from Feuz, Janka, or Caviezel, and to the young, to Kryenbühl, Weber, Rogentin. All of this should have told him last summer to give new impetus to. However, Küng also this season, hard fact. After all, it was with the ranks of 17 and 22 in the slopes of Beaver Creek and Val Gardena once again, but the 42. Place last in Bormio broke this supposed upward trend.
And the low point was followed by a week in Wengen, and be the lucky spot. He crashed in Training and suffered a concussion. It was more than a next injury. It meant the end of his career. This afternoon (16:30) talk Küng in Kitzbühel to the journalists and will explain his resignation. It is an inglorious end for one who has made his ways very much in the last few years for the experts to be on the so-called d-day ready. He was 2014 in Wengen, as to the shortened Lauberhorn downhill was started, he was there at the 2015 world Championships in Beaver Creek. And he was – out of Nothing – at the home world ski Championships 2017 in St. Moritz, where he missed the downhill podium by only 2 hundredths. In that season he had managed it just once in 7 of the 13 world Cup races in the points.
And now the career of the 35 ends the Year with an injury. The last few years occupied the body again and again. Equal to his Coup of Beaver Creek 2015, he suffered in the summer, an injury to the patella tendon in his left knee, which turned out to be particularly insistent. For almost two years, he found no recipe against it to arrive in January 2016, he interrupted his Comeback. In the spring of 2017, he could train normally again, but he fought well with the Material, with the vote. And even, as Küng wanted to take on the second highest level in the European Cup of the new start-up, it ended with a big disappointment: The Super-G in Reiteralm, he finished as a 32. Today, he will draw the line under his career. The power for the next start-up is not enough. (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 23.01.2019, 09:37 PM