Expectations were, as usual, large on Marcel Hirscher when the alpine world cup in the week, took the austrian Saalbach-Hinterglemm. But in Wednesday’s giant slalom, missed the sjufaldige the winner of the overall world cup podium.
in Thursday’s slalom, it was, however, not the speech of any doldrums.
the 29-year-old Hirscher is in a large lead ahead of the second run, 52 hundredths ahead of the austrian landslagskollegan Michael Matt and a further seven ahead of Norwegian rival Henrik Kristoffersen.
is the only other during the winter världscupsäsong.
In the premiere in the Finnish Levi in november, ended the Swedish OS-one Andre Myhrer was third. In Saalbach – Hinterglemm, he lies sixth after the first run, 94 hundredths after Hirscher.
, who drove out in Levi, had a heavier start to the day. Hargin is 21:a, all of 3 seconds and 87 hundredths after the lead.
Two Swedish framtidsnamn also got the chance. But OS-skrällsjuan Kristoffer Jakobsen drove out and Gustav Lundbäck miss the second run as 47.
the Second run starts at 13.00.
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