Slalom at the Olympics in the live ticker: sensation by Munich on "idiot hill"?

Created: 02/16/2022, 06:06

By: Marius Epp

Linus Straßer wants to win a medal in the slalom at the Olympics.

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A man from Munich is a medal candidate at the Winter Olympics.

Linus Straßer reaches for the precious metal in the slalom.

The race in the live ticker.

• The men's alpine slalom at the 2022 Olympics will take place on Wednesday

• With Linus Straßer, a Munich player is one of the extended favorites - will he be able to surprise?

• The Olympic slalom in Beijing in the live ticker

Slalom at the Olympics: intermediate result after the 1st round

+++ Update +++

Munich/Yanqing - On Wednesday, early in the morning of the Olympics in Germany, it's time to keep your fingers crossed!

But that won't be enough in the end if it's supposed to be a medal in the end.

Linus Straßer and the "Eisfluss" piste, it wasn't love at first sight.

The slope on which he would like to win an Olympic medal in slalom as the first German ski racer since Markus Wasmeier's double gold in 1994 is "apparently relatively easy," says the Munich resident - but that's what makes his project so complicated.

The "Ganslern" in Kitzbühel, the "Chuenisbärgli" in Adelboden or the "Planai" in Schladming, where Straßer won the Olympic dress rehearsal, demand everything from the slalom aces year after year.

On the other hand, the slope in Yanqing, which was specially carved into the mountain for the Beijing games, is, with all due respect: idiot hill.

Because that's the way it is, "you run the risk," says Straßer, "of wanting too much and overdoing it," meaning overdoing it.

Slalom at the Olympics in the live ticker: sensation by Munich on "idiot hill"? 

What can happen then, he and DSV hope Alexander Schmid had to experience bitterly in the giant slalom.

A small mistake - and zack: over, end of all medal dreams.

Straßer is therefore looking for "the golden mean between really clean skiing, but still having your right foot on the accelerator".

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The other top riders will do the same, of whom there are more in slalom than in any other discipline.

"It's the most brutal competition at the moment," says DSV Alpine boss Wolfgang Maier.

In six races of the season there were six different winners, only four racers were on the podium twice, including Straßer.

He predicts a "very close race" for Wednesday (10.15/13.45 ET, 3.15/6.45 CET), "it will be tough".