Olympia 2018: Marcel Hirscher:”Couldn’t have lived with it”

The adventure of Olympia starts for Alpine ski superstar Marcel Hirscher with a real challenge. As far as the speed range is concerned, that’s improvising for me,”said the Salzburg skier in Jeongseon, where he had already strapped on the training slope for two days.

Tomorrow morning the challenge starts for me, that I get used to the downhill:”In the Super-G he has a bit of an experience, but in the downhill he almost feels like a pupil’s runner. According to the FIS database, his career in all age and level classes, from FIS races to World Championships, only 14 departures are recorded in his career, the last one in the WRC station wagon in St. Gallen last February. Moritz.

The good news is that he had been in Jeongseon two years ago, that he remembered every corner and not standing on the slope thinking where I am and where I’m going,”When you’re on the downhill run, everything looks the same. There are three large hills, which are similar in structure to the topography. I’m gonna push my way in slowly and don’t take any chances with the jumps. If you’re not indoors like that, there’s a certain risk because you’re inexperienced,”said the governing slalom and giant slalom world champion.

During the 2016 World Cup in Jeongseon, he competed in both downhill training sessions (7.33 and 3.98 seconds behind) and was placed in the Super-G seventh place,”I need all three downhill training sessions, all four, all ten actually,”Hirscher made it clear that he is taking what he gets.

“It’s also the question, can we put together some sort of stuff tomorrow where I feel comfortable, I’m not even talking about set up yet. I have no plan, I don’t know about the discipline. Can’t fall back on anything. As much as I know another sector, where I can say almost any textbook structure variant, but here…” He wants to slowly increase and step up on the accelerator in the curves.

Hirscher became world champion in 2015 in Vail/Beaver Creek and won the silver medal in 2017. That’s why he will also be competing at the Olympics.”I’ll try. I could not have lived with the fact that at some point, when I sit in my leather armchair and think about it, I wonder whether I should have taken the chance or not. Specifically, if a technician would still make gold,”he said with a smile. The goal must be to reach the top 30 in the descent, otherwise he could pack up anyway.

And that would be difficult enough. Unless you turn the piste into an ice skating centre. Of course it’s tough, but it’s not icy. At minus 20 degrees Celsius, it’s getting more aggressive, I always feel like it’s the same as in America, Vail, Beaver Creek,”said the six-time overall World Cup winner.

There’s a lot of water in the piste, but that’s disappeared in the dryness we have here. It’s fascinating. You look out of here, it’s minus twenty degrees below zero, but it looks as if it’s plus ten,”said the 28-year-old, looking at the snowless forest landscape.