Olympia 2018: Schröckungsadel talks about piquant Olympic themes

Austria finished the Olympic Games in South Korea with 14 medals. A good value for the local athletes. Now, a few days after the end of the Games, ÖSV President Peter Schröcksnadel commented on some hot topics. After all, not all was vain delight in Pyeongchang.

Schröcksnadel, for example, criticized the lack of mood in South Korea:”I agree with Marcel Hirscher’s criticism. Olympia is the biggest, but the ski area was nothing for the spectators. Moreover, the windy and cold weather was borderline. I’ve never been so frozen in my life,”he says to the free newspaper Austria.

Schröcksnadel was also not particularly happy with the ski jumpers who did not win a medal. However, he doesn’t want to blame Springer coach Heinz Kuttin for this:”Bad results can’t only be down to the trainer, it’s the athlete who jumps. I wonder how it can be that Stefan Kraft wins everything in one season, and then suddenly nothing at all.”

On the other hand, he shows understanding for the riders who are threatened with a World Cup season without victory and who landed in no-man’s-land at the Olympic downhill race:”We were unlucky with the numbers. Nothing went out the back. No, I won’t let anything come over the downhill runners. They drive well, which you can see in the Super-G. They’re the same race runners.”