Neither whipper nor intermission clown: Roman Roell did not create a good atmosphere at the Kandahar races. © Very much
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Roman Roell doesn't create enough atmosphere. That's what some visitors complained about after the Ski World Cup a year ago. The criticism has arrived.
He stretches his arms in the air, shouts encouragement to the spectators. But the spark doesn't fly. "He doesn't really carry the audience along, he should animate the people more." This verdict was made by Heinz Mohr of the Felix Neureuther Fan Club a year ago at the Alpine Ski World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Some shared his opinion. Stadium announcer Roman Roell did not succeed in turning the finish area at Kandahar into a party cauldron.
Feedback like this does not leave Peter Fischer cold. "The criticism was partly justified," admits the head of the World Cup Organizing Committee (OC) and the Garmisch Ski Club. So he reacted. Roell, known from radio and television, will not appear as a stadium announcer at this year's World Cup.
Roell as a mood enhancer and live commentator will be followed by a team: Andre Siems will take over the sporting and technical part. Like Roell, he is a man from Bayerischer Rundfunk, hosted the Bayern 3 Morning Show with him for two years and made a name for himself as a sports commentator during the Biathlon World Cup and in the Bundesliga, among other things. He is assisted by animator and stoker DJ El Mar, who in turn was recommended by Frank Eickenbusch alias DJ Tonic, who has been recording the songs from his mixing console in the finish area for many years and has been working with DJ El Mar for a long time.
This trio marks the end of the collaboration between Roell and SC Garmisch, which began so promisingly in 2011 with the Alpine World Ski Championships. And in 2013 it was extended to neighbouring Partenkirchen – but it came to an inglorious end there.
Roell's appearance as a speaker at the New Year's ski jumping event on January 1, 2013 remained his only one. The team led by Michael Maurer, head of the organising committee and president of the Partenkirchen Ski Club, publicly doubted Roell's competence, and the farewell was "not entirely silent," Maurer said at the time. This apparently distinguishes the separation from SC Garmisch. No one denies Roell's technical knowledge. In addition, Fischer emphasizes: "We talked professionally, there was no dispute."
Gerd Rubenbauer is also back in action
And who knows if there won't be a reunion with Roell at some point. In any case, the new team runs under the motto "just try it out," says Fischer. "We'll have to see if the concept works out the way we want it to." In other words: a non-stop top atmosphere.
For this purpose, the OC team is tinkering with the framework, and against this background has also considered innovations for the start number allocation. But nothing works without spectators. That's why the organizers are beating the drum. As in the previous year, they are working together with Radio Arabella, one of the stations with the widest reach for Munich and the surrounding area. Sports reporter veteran Gerd Rubenbauer advertises the World Cup visit in Garmisch-Partenkirchen via spots. Of course, he sets a good example – and flies in.
Born in Munich, he lives in Mallorca. In winter, however, his heart continues to beat to the rhythm of snow and skis. In the meantime, however, he has handed over the microphone to Antenne Bayern presenter Evi Ott. In training and races, she interviews the speed specialists and technicians in the finish area of the Kandahar. In this way, the spectators immediately find out what chances the drivers think they have, how satisfied they are, where they lost and won the decisive hundredths.
So the basis for a good mood has been laid. Now all that's left is for the spark to fly.
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