After his fall, the Oberstdorfer wants to go on the slopes more often than in the trail.
After his fall in the gold run by the German combiners, Johannes Rydzek wants to go on the slopes more often in the future instead of the trail. “I made a belly splash a la Bonne Heure. I have to go to alpine training again in our ski club,” said the Oberstdorfer after the World Cup triumph of the German team in Trondheim.
Rydzek fell as a German starting runner shortly before the end of his round, instead of the leading one, the veteran handed over to the World Cup debutante Wendelin Thannheimer with 13 seconds.
“I would have liked to have had it differently. But nobody is immune to it in the deep run, unfortunately I got stuck,” said Rydzek: “Then you lie down and still have to keep a cool head, get up as soon as possible and be careful that you are not right again. Fortunately, it was no longer far because the adrenaline and the lactate shot in.”
In the end, it was still enough for gold, since Julian Schmid brought the gap to Austria again and the final runner Vinzenz Geiger brought the victory home.