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Even in his youth, Felix Neureuther was always one of the best. Looking back, he sees the structures of the DSV as rather inhibiting.
Munich – Many parents support their children in their sporting goals. This was also the case with Felix Neureuther, who is still grateful to his father today. Dad Christian Neureuther had a decisive influence on the training design so that his son could compete with athletes at the same level as a youth.
Neureuther did not want to trust the DSV structures
The youth of future professional athletes can be very different. The former downhill skier spoke about the fact that Felix Neureuther's life was always steeply uphill in the podcast “Mensch, Büchel”. Neureuther talked to host Marco Büchel about his time on the way to becoming a professional, during which it was clear “from a young age” that “I would one day become the savior of German skiing.”
Felix Neureuther also looks back critically on his time as a young skier. © picture alliance/dpa | Michael Kappeler
An expectation that was brought primarily from outside. But it was also based on measurable results. Neureuther “won the races by a wide margin” early on. While others can only dream of such a career, Neureuther sees the matter critically: “I don't think it was good for my development. Because I never learned to fight.” A big plus from his youth skiing, however, is his friendship with Bastian Schweinsteiger, who recently showed old childhood photos of the two of them.
However, Neureuther considers the circumstances in the association at the time to be negative. “If I had just trusted the structure of the German Ski Association, then I would have had no chance of becoming a skier, no chance,” he says in an interview with Büchel. If the DSV had had its way, “I would have always been there with my peers,” says Neureuther, who fears: “I would have gone under, I would have been pissed off.”
Christian Neureuther probably has a decisive influence
His father Christian played a large part in ensuring that Felix Neureuther didn't "sink out" among his peers. He always tried “from the outside” to “steer things so that it was in my interest.” This meant that his son Felix was given the opportunity to train with older drivers who were technically at his level at a young age.
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It was only because his father made sure that he could train with people “three to four years older” that he was able to develop further at a young age. And so Felix didn't have to complete many races in the FIS and European Cups before he was finally allowed to compete in the World Cup and became so famous there that he now sometimes even denies his name. (
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