The phenomenon Marcel Hirscher has struck again. With his gold medal on RTL, the Salzburg Olympic gold medallist has made himself a double Olympic champion and is about to wipe out the only white spot on his winning map, which was the only white spot on the map before these games. And this with seemingly effortless ease.
“Experience helps me enormously,”the Dominator blames a simple recipe for success. The pressure to restart his career with the first Olympic gold medals seems to the 28-year-old himself to be much less evident than was assumed from the outside.
“If you were able to win 55 races, one day you might think:’ If I fail today, what is it then? And the answer is:’ Nix!’,”Hirscher explains the ease of use that makes him so strong this extraordinary season.
For Hirscher, the most formative moment on his way there was probably the Home World Cup in 2013, during which he withstood enormous public pressure. Everything that came after that was only half as bad.
“Schladming was all about it. It’s also about whether I manage to become a big man in this sport or not. In the meantime, I am aware that I was able to reach some great sporting levels and climbed up the ladder of success. It just gives me such satisfaction, and it’s extremely helpful. It takes the pressure out of it.”
Even the relief about his first two Olympic gold medals can’t quite keep up with the golden one in the Schladming World Championships slalom:”The relief is different,” Hirscher says and adds with a smile:”But not bad.
In the slalom on Thursday the next gold medal, the third title, seems to be ready for collection. For Hirscher, however, the focus is not on series and top marks; it is a new race to be won.
I’m starting to get a bit tired and I can’t see any more rice either,”Hirscher reveals and shoots with a smile:” Sorry, dear Asian friends, but two and a half weeks of rice are hard for a European “.
Rice, however, can hardly be harder to crack than the nut Marcel Hirscher.