The World Cup third grants a certain tiredness shortly before the season finale.
For ski racers Linus Straßer, the winning of World Cup bronze will probably remain the only highlight this winter. In the World Cup, the Munich team also failed in the penultimate slalom of the season when trying to drive on the podium.
The 32-year-old finished the race in Hafjell in Norwegian in eleventh place, 1.58 seconds behind the winner Loic Meillard. The world champion from Switzerland, already the first in the giant slalom the day before, won ahead of Atle Lie McGrath from Norway (+0.21) and Norwegian Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (+0.47) that started for Brazil (+0.47).
Straßer then admitted a certain tiredness. The season “cost a lot of strength until the World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm in mid-February, also mentally,” he said on ZDF and added: “I have to struggle with myself that everything remains upright.”
In the fight for the overall victory in the Slalom World Cup, which he was able to keep open last winter until the end, Straßer has had no chance after his mixed World Cup season. Meillard, on the other hand, shortened his gap to 47 points before the season finale in Sun Valley in the US state of Idaho (March 22nd to 27th).