It was clear: 12 votes for Saalbach-Hinterglemm, only one for Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Crans-Monata (Switzerland).
On the Day of German Unity, the World Ski Federation FIS decided who would be allowed to host the Alpine World Cup in 2025.
The first reactions ...
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- From the World Cup dream of 2025: Garmisch-Partenkirchen had to accept a bitter setback when awarding the Alpine Ski World Championships in 2025: The title fights went to Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Land Salzburg) in Austria.
But not only that: The result was very clear with 12: 1: 1 votes.
Competitors Crans-Montana and Garmisch-Partenkirchen could only win one vote from a member of the FIS Council, the highest body of the FIS.
"A defeat always hurts," says Peter Fischer, the head of the application committee at the Garmisch Ski Club.
“But we have to go on now.
The ski association as well as the mayor personally have already confirmed their readiness for another candidacy, that is the positive thing that we now have to pull out of this situation. "
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One thing is clear: Saalbach-Hinterglemm received twelve votes, Garmisch-Partenkirchen only one
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World Cup slap in Miami in 2004
In 2004 in Miami / USA the slap in the face had a similar resounding sound.
There, too, the market town only received the vote of the German FIS board member Fritz Wagnerberger.
"We know what has grown out of it: the 2011 World Cup." In 2006 Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Portugal was awarded the contract.
For Fischer there is no alternative to running again.
A group of around 50 invited guests had followed the award procedure including the presentation of the three applicants in the town hall of the market town - due to the corona situation, neatly divided into individual rooms of the town hall.
Among them were DSV President Franz Steinle as the head of the national association.
Political support came from Artur Auernhammer (CSU), member of the sports committee in the German Bundestag.
District administrator Anton Speer (Free Voters) was just as much a part of the crowd as BZB board member Matthias Stauch, Michael Maurer, President of SC Partenkirchen, and Riesch's sister Susanne and Maria.
The latter appeared as the World Cup ambassador for the application for 2025.
Her conclusion is also clear: "We have to continue immediately, we mustn't make the same mistake as we did in the past when we took a break." That Höfl-Riesch will be in the boat again - that is not the case for the triple Olympic champion Question.