Slalom in the live ticker: Is Linus Straßer also rocking in Flachau? German ski ace hopes for the next coup

The ski circus stops in Flachau.

The slalom men ride in Austria on Saturday and Sunday.

We are in the live ticker.

• First Wengen, then Kitzbühel, now

  Flachau

  : after the great slalom chaos, the World Cup is now rising in Salzburger Land.

• DSV athlete

  Linus Straßer is

  hoping for the next triumph.

• We accompany the races on Saturday (9.30 a.m.) and Sunday (10.30 a.m.) in the

  live ticker

  .

>>> UPDATE <<<

Flachau - all's well that ends well.

Ultimately, we've also got a venue for the

World Cup

of

Wengen

found.

The slalom experts are now driving in

Flachau

- after

Kitzbühel was

actually

chosen as Wengen replacement.

Because of the upcoming

Hahnenkamm race

, this plan was rejected again.

The corona risk is too great to gather so many athletes in one place in such a short time.

Finally, priority will be given to the legendary Hahnenkamm race, which will be held in Kitzbühel from January 22nd to 24th.

So the slalom specialists cannot be found in

Wengen

or

Kitzbühel

, but in

Flachau

.

A bit bitter for the German Linus Straßer.

Because: He lives in Kirchberg right next to Kitzbühel and therefore close to Ganslern, the legendary slope on which he once learned to ski and which feels like "home".

Slalom in the live ticker: will Linus Straßer make it to the podium again in Flachau?

Regardless of the circumstances:

the move is not inconvenient for

Straßer

.

"Artificial", says the ski lion of the TSV 1860 Munich in an interview with the

SID

, the Kitzbühel had the Gansler in the past few years, had additionally manipulated the many treacherous waves that constantly break the rhythm of the drivers.

“Great race.

But it's not fun to drive there, ”explains

Straßer

.

“Five goals, wave, break.

Five goals, wave, break. ”And so on.

Nothing bothers slalom drivers more than being brought out of the rhythm stored in the subconscious - in this way

Flachau is

more of a blessing.

There are few pitfalls there.

The Austrian

Manuel Feller

speaks somewhat disparagingly of a "fairytale meadow".

But precisely for this reason, stressed

Feller

and

Straßer

,

Flachau is

“not an easy slope to be fast”.

The world's elite are too close together.

Linus Straßer: German slalom specialist finally made it to the top of the world

And

Straßer

, the winner of Zagreb and second from Adelboden, has finally arrived there.

Six years after a fifth place in Schladming, since he was considered the winner of tomorrow.

How did he do it?

By leaving Linus from back then.

The apprenticeship years were tough.

Straßer

drove Felix Neureuther and Fritz Dopfer around the ears in practice, but in the race, he is happy to admit, "I got in my way".

That means: “You get into a racing situation and you know you have to do it even better than in practice.

But you also know: It doesn't work, it can only get worse. "

In order to still be better,

Straßer

believed

that he had to change something in the race - and nothing worked anymore.

Those days are over now.

There was something “liberating” about the success of Zagreb, says

Straßer

.

And he wants the “cool feeling” of victory “back”.

Maybe on the “Hermann Maier World Cup slope” in

Flachau

?

akl / sid