The Super-G in Beaver Creek, held in borderline conditions, is causing a stir. Alexis Monney is furious after Vincent Kriechmayr’s victory. A German trio didn’t even get to go on the slopes.
In the Super-G of Beaver Creek, joy and sorrow were once again particularly close together: While the Austrians were happy about Vincent Kriechmayr’s World Cup victory, there was a bad mood in the Swiss camp.
The trigger was a fall by downhill world champion Franjo von Almen, which resulted in a longer race interruption with increasingly dense snowfall.
Alexis Monney takes off his skis in the finish area
Monney without a chance in fresh snow: “Absolutely unfair”
Shortly after the race was restarted, compatriot Alexis Monney went on the piste, who had no chance to match Kriechmayr’s top time.
“The fresh snow that came into the piste during the race interruption was insufficiently cleared from the piste. When I approached the jump, there were certainly five centimeters of fresh snow,” he criticized in an interview with the newspaper Blick . “That is absolutely unfair,” he continued to grumble.
With a deficit of 1.93 seconds, the bronze medalist of the World Championship downhill from the previous winter had to be content with 17th place. In fact, only athletes who were on the line before the interruption (after start number 14) occupied the top 10 places.
At least there was something positive to take away from the fact that the fallen von Almen only suffered bruises and probably does not have to pause longer.
Super G canceled after 31 drivers: German trio without a chance
In borderline and unfair conditions, Kriechmayr had to tremble for his victory for a long time. After all, 30 drivers have to enter the race so that an official result can be evaluated at the end according to the regulations.
The FIS decided to cancel the race after the 31st starter. The 37 athletes who were still at the top had to find their way to the valley in other ways and had no way to win World Cup points.
The German ski aces Simon Jocher, Romed Baumann and Maximilian Schwarz, who would have been at the start with numbers 34, 46 and 53, also belonged to this group of athletes.
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