The DSV sports director takes a critical record.
DSV Alpin boss Wolfgang Maier has drawn a critical seasonal record after the last World Cup races. He was “not so enthusiastic” of his team’s overall cutting, the 64-year-old told the SID because the objectives of ten to 15 podium placements had been missed.
The two-time winner of the season Emma Aicher and Lena Dürr drove seven “Stockerl” ranks, with the badly decimated men about the World Cup third Linus Straßer there was no single for the first time since the winter of 2003/04. “It was more of a weaker season because the results simply didn’t vote as you expected it,” said Maier: “It was just too little we showed.”
But there were good reasons for that. For women, behind Shootingstar Aicher and the experienced drought, “partly the offspring that can connect to the top of the world” that the men’s team was “very thinned out” after resignations, injuries and illnesses.
There, the junior world champions Felix Rösle and Benno Brandis come after, although it is “a long way” for the youngster, “until they really arrive at the top of the world,” as Maier emphasized. The sports director expects “that we question ourselves – but not in the sense that one destroys each other”. It is about discussing: “Do we have implemented what we have planned? Is the investment that we have made, especially in the offspring and used correctly and useful?”
Another “focus” would be because, no matter how we do it, we will develop a women’s team again with several runners “. Here Maier wants “more substance” behind Aicher and Dürr.
The framework conditions in the World Cup and the “World Cup in between” in Saalbach/Austria regarding Maier as “successful”. “It was mostly very good races under very good conditions. The viewer interest on site was totally cool.” It was also positive that only one race had to be canceled due to the shortage of snow.