Wengen downhill in the live ticker: bang before Lauberhorn race - DSV star withdraws

Created: 01/15/2022, 09:59 am

By: Christoph Klaucke

DSV ace Andreas Sander will not start on the downhill in Wengen.

© Thomas Bachun/Imago

Double pack in the downhill, part two: The DSV ski racers have to do without their top star Andreas Sander in Wengen.

The Lauberhorn race in the live ticker.

• Alpine skiing: Departure in Wengen, Saturday, 12.30 p.m.

• There will be two downhill runs in Wengen on Friday and Saturday.

• The DSV stars around Romed Baumann, Josef Ferstl and Dominik Schwaiger are challenged after their disappointing performance in the second race, but have to do without their top man Andreas Sander.

• We accompany the traditional Lauberhorn race in the live ticker.

Wengen - There is a lot on offer for fans of winter sports* this weekend.

The downhill double pack at the World Cup in Wengen is entering its second round.

This time it will be even faster, because the traditional Lauberhorn race is not shortened by 45 driving seconds after the first run on Friday.

For the DSV team, the first descent ended in a debacle.

No alpine ace was able to place in the top 20 - a German team had last done so badly six years ago.

Shortly before the second descent, the next setback followed.

World Championship runner-up Andreas Sander voluntarily decided not to compete in Wengen, just three weeks before the Olympics.

This was decided by the 32-year-old and the coaching team, the German Ski Association (DSV) announced on Saturday morning a few hours before the start.

Wengen downhill in the live ticker: DSV star Sander does not start

Instead, Sander should prepare for the races in Kitzbühel.

On the Streif there, two downhill races will take place on January 21st and 22nd as an Olympic dress rehearsal.

In China, medals will be awarded in the fast disciplines on February 6 (Downhill) and February 8 (Super-G).

By not starting, Sander is reacting to his form crisis and the recent poor performance.

At the downhill on Friday, the world championship runner-up was only 41st place and he hadn't gotten past 33rd place in the Super-G the day before.

"A really disappointing day for me," the Ennepetaler wrote on Instagram after the Super-G.

His best downhill result so far this winter was eleventh place in Val Gardena just before Christmas.

“The worm is in there at the moment.

Nothing fits together," said Sander after the failed downhill race on ZDF.

DSV ace Andreas Sander disappointed on the first descent in Wengen.

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Departure in Wengen in the live ticker: DSV team required after historic debacle

In the first of two shot drives in Wengen on Friday, Sander was the worst of the five bad Germans on the route shortened by 45 driving seconds. He was only 41st when the Norwegian Alexsander Aamodt Kilde won. The fastest of the quintet was Dominik Schwaiger in 24th place - and he too made a sad face. "I've made too many mistakes," he said. This also applied to his teammates.

In the Super-G the day before, the Germans had managed a kind of liberation: Vice World Champion Romed Baumann missed the podium by only three hundredths in fourth place, Josef Ferstl was happy with sixth place.

A setback followed immediately: Baumann (27th), Ferstl (33rd) and the young Simon Jocher (38th) landed between Schwaiger and Sander - a German team had last done so badly in the downhill six years ago.

It can only get better in the second descent.

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