The speed specialists couldn’t do more than train and wait for better weather this World Cup season.
This was also the case last weekend in Beaver Creek, where two downhill runs and a Super-G fell victim to wind and snow.
At least on the journey home, Vincent Kriechmayr and Marco Schwarz were ahead of Marco Odermatt: Since the Swiss overall World Cup winner arrived late at the airport in Denver due to a closed mountain pass near Vail, he was initially unable to get a flight home.
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“All business places were fully booked,” said head coach Tom Stauffer to the Swiss “Blick”. So the Swiss only had to start their journey home via Chicago one day later on Monday.
The ÖSV aces fared better, getting business seats from Denver to London on Sunday. “Marco Odermatt seemed pretty lost to me at the airport in Denver. In my opinion, Odi and many other athletes were not given enough support in this situation by the FIS travel department employee who was in North America,” ÖSV coach Marko Pfeiffer was quoted as saying.
While the shorter regeneration break isn’t a big deal for the pure speed riders, as they don’t continue in Val Gardena until December 14th, the technicians already have giant slalom and slalom on the program this weekend in Val d’Isere. These also include Odermatt and black.
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