Olympia 2018: Marcel Hirscher:”Then I can really grasp my brains.”

Asked by the Austrian alpine ski racer Marcel Hirscher for the first downhill training on Thursday in Jeongseon at the Olympic Games for his use in the combination on Tuesday:

Question: Upstairs you had a frightening moment and missed a goal. They were said to have never been in such a good mood at the finish after a first training run in the downhill. Why?

Marcel Hirscher: Because there was not a moment when I thought to myself,’ Dude, what are you doing now and what are you supposed to do now’. I was able to implement my plan. I don’t know what went off upstairs, I couldn’t find any more ground because it hit like that. I think I just picked the wrong line, I should have held more height. But they were solid jumps, everything could have been worse. I’m going to drive every workout, I have to take every meter.

Question: You said the day before that you had to look at putting your stuff together. Find everything?

Hirscher: I have a giant slalom shoe and downhill skis on. So it’s just all improvising. But I can’t drop down at the fourth goal and say,’ well, that was too slippery what I put on’.

Question: For the viewer it looks quite similar from top to bottom, it repeats itself. How do you like the ride?

Hirscher: The good news is that I was here two years ago. We did the right thing then. You know where you are, even if it sounds stupid. But if you’re on a track where everything is the same, where there’s no distinctive stuff, you’re happy if you’ve been here before, because you just know the course of the track.

Question: The downhill specialists consider the route after the January classics to be easy. How do you feel about that?

Hirscher: For example, the curves are not at all overcoming. But for me, the jumps are a challenge. Logically, compared to the jump in Stockholm (City Event/Anm.) this is a clever buzz. I don’t want to risk too much. The last thing I want is to shoot over the target here. Then I can really get my brains in.