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The athletes wanted to make the necessary adjustments to the high air pressure, which would cause excessive jumps into the mousetrap and “Alte Schneide on the stripe”, said Markus Waldner, Chief Race Director of the Ski World Association (FIS). According to his colleague Hannes Trinkl, further adaptations had also been made on the World Cup downhill run in Kitzbühel.

“The snow was faster than we expected. A few jumps are big, but we couldn’t stop the training,”said Waldner at the team captain’s meeting on Tuesday evening, referring to the weather forecast. But it wasn’t a drama either, you could go in “without Fullspeed”. The falls that had taken place had gone smoothly.

On Wednesday night, rain and snow were expected in Kitzbühel. Austria’s athletes will use the day for Super-G-training. Thursday the second and final downhill training should be possible. Friday a Super-G is planned, Saturday the departure and Sunday the slalom.