Melting ice cream caused chaos on the first day of four four competitions in Lake Placid. The German pilots around Johannes Lochner are upset.
The World Cup trip over concrete was stunned by Johannes Lochner. “It just can’t be if we want to do sports here at a world level,” the German Bob Pilot scolded at the ZDF microphone in Lake Placid: “It is shitty in this sense because we are under discussion here as an alternative for the Olympics.”
What happened? After a regular first run in the four, the temperatures in the US state of New York continued to increase on Friday, Lochner apparently fell back with a completely messed up second run.
Johannes Lochner bitterly complains about the concrete chaos
However, it turned out that the Berchtesgadener had driven five over concrete in curve in curve and had “the whole back skiage”. The jury decided that Lochner was allowed to drive again, whereupon the German team successfully protested due to the long waiting time and the damaged bobs from Lochner. After a long consultation, the second run was canceled.
“If you don’t even get a World Cup down here …”
A year before the Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the incident stirs up with the athletes. In the event that the new construction in Italy does not finish on time for the winter games (February 6th to 22nd, 2026), the ice channel in Lake Placid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was determined as an alternative place.
“If you don’t even get a World Cup down here, let alone a World Cup,” said Lochner, “it just can’t be.” In the previous week, when the men’s two-day competitions had passed without any problems, Lochner, according to Lochner, had been the experienced route workers from the Königssee on the train. “Now the week the boys are no longer there and the weather is of course 10 degrees warmer. Then somehow it doesn’t work anymore, ”said Lochner.
Dominator Francesco Friedrich was also annoyed by the train, but emphasized: “Of course we are an outdoor sport. You always have to count on it and, as a professional athlete, always assume that everything does not always run optimally. You have to accept that. “
The World Cup runs three and four on Saturday from 1 p.m. (CET) are to take place according to schedule. Friedrich, who leads the field 0.29 seconds in front of Lochner, only expects a run on the day of the decision due to the weather lottery.