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Beaver Creek. Austrian downhill runners are also tied for the first free practice session at Beaver Creek. The best time was won Wednesday by the "qualified" Otmar Striedinger, who has left his compatriot Vincent Kriechmayr tied by 0.40 seconds, despite the high number of 36 on the Birds of Prey. Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal finished third.
After a previous snowfall, the demanding trail of raptors came on Wednesday with the first palpation under a still relatively mild cloudy sky. Perhaps the first was also the last training for the start Saturday, because Thursday, fresh snow is announced again. The Beaver Creek racing program begins Friday with the Super-G and ends Sunday with the giant slalom.
Striedinger had already climbed well in Lake Louise last week. Carinthian, 27, gained momentum in the Speed 2 group after a mixed year and seems to be back in great shape. "All I can do is ski fast," said Striedinger, who had already made the "coaching decision" for both races in Canada.
After his best time at Beaver Creek should be free for "Otl", if Thursday's training was actually to be canceled. The former best runner and fifth at the Olympic Games at the 2014 Super-G (two hundredths of a bronze medal) still does not know why he's back on track. "I do not know all this, but we have a great spirit in our group and the orientation is correct," he said.
Kriechmayr in turn confirmed his current best form and was declared in the finish area of the Svindal downhill tied with the big favorite of both races. "He's technically perfect right now," said the Norwegian.
For the super technician Kriechmayr, the Birds of Prey is indeed an almost perfect coating. "Here I had my first points and my first win the previous year in the Super-G," he said about the circuit on which a year ago "the button was survey".
"It's one of the coolest tracks I've ever had, and I always like to come here," said Kriechmayr, who leads the overall World Cup standings. He explained his rush hour as follows: "The competition was still a little difficult today, I was already on the steep slope until the limit, it was successful, but I was not happy. I ruined two more corners and lost a lot of time. " On the praises of the competition, he said with a smile: "They just want to put pressure on me."
Super G Olympic champion Matthias Mayer proved in his seventh training session that he was settling his voting problems very slowly. "I have tried something again," said the Carinthian. "The track was very soft, but it will probably not be very different on Saturday," said Mayer in the face of the upcoming snowfall.
Lake Louise downhill winner Max Franz finished ninth ahead of Hannes Reichelt. "A win makes things a little easier, so I did not train so well here in 2012," Carinthian said with satisfaction.
Also for Reichelt, Beaver Creek has long been a kind of salon. In 2015, he also became World Super-G Champion. "The track was definitely icy, the residue is getting a little bumpy," said Salzburg, who has never won the downhill here.
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