Mikaela Shiffrin is not there – and yet present at this Thursday evening in the Swiss Hotel in Sölden. Inevitably, the American begins to the topic, if Wendy Holdener talks about the season, the tomorrow with the giant slalom on the Rettenbach glacier. As you would a pesky shadow. Not one who follows you, but one who is ahead of her.
Still, the best slalom racer in the country chasing their first victory in their specialist discipline. 22 times you stand on the slalom podium, it was a silver at the world Championships in St. Moritz, silver in the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang has won you never. Often this was just to Shiffrin, the miracle rider, under the technology inside.
“I’m just driving longer than you”
wear down Which can be frustrating. Holdener tried to take it calmly, you know the Situation gradually. In the joke, the 26-Year-old says: “I have made up my mind to just go longer than you. Up came to my mind that she is two years younger.” It’s a spell, the Holdener would not have been in other years, on the lips.
Mikaela Shiffrin is Holdener, at least in the world Cup before the sun. (Image: Joan Cros/NurPhoto via )
Yes, she is still the perfectionist of the past, it is hardly ever pleased with himself, “is sometimes yourself crazy in the Training,” so she says, “because I don’t want to keep getting better and better, even though it wasn’t bad.” But somehow, it seems she’s doing grim, but less than before.
Beat Tschuor, the head coach of the women says: “I was always in Training, but when I saw her, she seemed playful, relaxed, calm, and consistent. It must flow, then it fits.” There Holdener wants to come.
“Other people are cooler than me”
you see it now more “as a Game,” she says, as a game. “I don’t want to have the feeling to be able to lose a lot, but want to give it Gas for the win. I know that other athletes are cooler than me. But that’s how I am.” If you stand at the Start, she would like to “beautiful sports moments of writing, it spurs me on and makes me relaxed. And: I’ve achieved a few things.” It is an understatement.
“I Have given everything and others were just better, I can accept the good.”Wendy Holdener
Holdener is one of the greatest figures of the world Cup the last few years. In addition to the two silver medals in the Slalom world Cup Gold medals and one Olympic Bronze in the combination, as well as world Cup and Olympic Gold in the Team that you led with strong rides in the parallel race to success twice.
And yet, this darn slalom victory, of missing her is still there. “The medals help me on the one side, the handle. On the other, there was hardly a race where it hurt that I missed the victory. I have given everything and others were just better, I can accept the good.” Only the last race of last season in Andorra, Soldeu, the hurt “to the extreme. Because I took there in front of the target just a bit of Tempo. Otherwise I would have had the first victory in the bag.” Seven hundredths of a missing her to the Premiere. The Winner? Exactly.
To a new level
Shiffrin lifted is what Marcel Hirscher for men over the years: to beat the Character in the technical disciplines, and thus hardly in the overall world Cup. Three times in the series, the 24-Year-old is the biggest award in the ski racing won now, Hirscher eight triumphs, before he announced at the beginning of September for his resignation.
Marcel Hirscher has announced his resignation. (Video: ORF)
The Austrians, so it say its competitors, have the skiing to a new level, lifted, inspired and motivated. The same is true for Shiffrin? Holdener says: “The Level is, thanks to her, another, in the Slalom, we have a good fight, the rest of us have to push ourselves constantly and become better. This is good for the Sport.”
The first test of strength in the narrow rods there are in a month in the Finnish Levi. The early start of the giant slalom in Sölden (starting at 10 am in the Ticker) power on Saturday . Holdener does not belong in the Ötztal valley to the biggest favourites. This can help you. On their constant search of a little more looseness.
Created: 25.10.2019, 17:51 PM
