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.