Hangover mood in the Swiss ski team

After four races, the Swiss only have one silver medal from Wendy Holdener. Even top star Odermatt was not the expected medal bank and has to continue to wait for his first World Cup medal. After 43 podium places - including 17 victories - in 56 races (for comparison Austria: 17 podium places), Switzerland had big plans at the season's highlight. However, the euphoric initial mood gradually fades and the currently best skiing nation in the world in terms of World Cup points is slowly coming under pressure in the heart of the French Alps. “Just don’t get nervous now,” was the headline from the Swiss broadcast in its online edition. “Hangover in the Swiss ski team,” he said Day indicator .

Odermatt, who had won four of the six Super-Gs before the World Cup, had finished fourth as a gold candidate hours earlier. The 25-year-old missed bronze by eleven hundredths. Material problems were subsequently suspected, Odermatt himself said that he had changed the setup of the ski boots after the combined Super-G. It didn't help that the course was set by Swiss coach Reto Nydegger on Thursday.

Lara Gut-Behrami also came away empty-handed in the Super-G. © APA/afp / JEFF PACHOUD

Rather, there was someone at the top of the podium who Odermatt has known for over a decade. James “Jack” Crawford, born in 1997 like Odermatt, was another hundredth faster than Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. Odermatt later said that he said to Crawford before the race: The course is perfect for you. “He implemented that.”

Odermatt's disappointment Odermatt himself, disappointed, went into justification mode. “If you want to win the gold medal and come fourth, then you are not satisfied.” The feeling was good, but he was perhaps one or two tenths too little basic speed. “It was a very good ride, but three were simply faster,” he said, almost a little defiant View : “I think I have already won around 20 World Cup races (actually 19; note). That’s where the World Cup medal comes from sooner or later – and if not, then I’ve already won enough other things.”

Walter Reusser, the Alpine boss at Swiss-Ski, said that we should look at the video to see exactly what was wrong with Odermatt. “I feel really sorry for Marco. With such a good season, it's not enough to win a medal at the end. That's a shame, but it also shows that sport is merciless." Switzerland will most likely no longer achieve the record result of the 1987 World Cup in Crans-Montana - eight gold medals, four silver medals, two bronze medals. “We didn’t say that before,” Reusser stood protectively in front of the team. “The sport is merciless.” Walter Reusser, the alpine boss of Swiss-Ski Theoretically it is possible, after all, there are still nine more races waiting in which Lara Gut-Behrami (missed Super-G bronze by four hundredths of a second), Loic Meillard, Daniel Yule, Gino Caviezel, Ramon Zenhäuser or Holdener again can compete. The greatest hopes still rest on Odermatt, who will have another chance to end his personal World Cup curse in the downhill on Sunday. It will be his ninth attempt.

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Hangover mood in the Swiss ski team

A slow start and now Marco Odermatt next to the podium: Switzerland doesn't really want to find its way into the major alpine event in Courchevel/Meribel and suffered its third disappointment in four days of the World Cup on Thursday in the men's Super-G.

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