World Sport News

Thomas Dreßen (Mittenwald) will compete on Thursday at the start of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang with starting number 1. With also the 1, he had been the fastest in the combined downhill on Tuesday.

Dreßen has deliberately dialled the number when assigning the starting numbers. As sixth in the world rankings, he was allowed to choose between 1 and 19 among the remaining odd numbers. Apart from 1,11,15,17 and 19 were free.

Favourites Beat Feuz (Switzerland) and Aksel Lund Svindal (Norway), who ranked first and second in the world ranking, voted for the 5th and 2nd place respectively. the 7.