to follow in Hinterstoder: this would have been the Swiss appearance in the first giant slalom run together. Follow it to a decent level, although, in this success of the season, but ranks between 10 and 20 may not inspire. Especially since the gap to the top was considerable.

In the second pass, but the Swiss attacked: Marco or Matt and Loïc Meillards not pulled out of hell, the Latter made less than 15 positions and finished with the best time in 7th place. Or Matt, according to half the workload tenth, missed on Fourth place in the podium scarce. With his error in the final part, he lost certainly more than the 18 hundredths, the missing him at rank 3, respectively, Henrik Kristoffersen. The fastest, Alexis Pinturault (FRA), he won against the Croatians Filip Zubic was. Pinturault is now also in the overall world Cup in front, 26 points ahead of Aleksander Kilde. Kristoffersen has 107 points behind.

Hinterstoder is not the last race

A time has been discussed, whether it was the last world Cup race of the season, despite the eight races. In particular, the Americans pushed due to the Coronavirus to a premature end of the Ski season. To the extent that it is not now.

In a telephone conference, the FIS Council decided that there are no Cancellations. This Association informed the world on Monday evening, and more: For all other FIS events is the fact that you wanted to keep to the instructions of the national and regional health authorities.

Difficult conditions in Austria

For the Sunday on Monday suspended a replacement race from Val d'isère shied away from the operator in upper Austria no effort. Around 100 extra staff and cars were in the short term, brought to the mountain, their use was also asked. At around ten degrees, the bucket was scattered salt on the slopes. And yet, there was a "numbers race": Who rose late in the race, was largely chanceless. After his failure in the first race, about Justin Murisier said, the Whole have not had much to do with skiing. In addition to Murisier, a second Swiss arbitration, with Thomas Tumler. And yet, the team of head coach Tom Stauffer convinced with a strong performance by the team. In addition to or in Matt and Meillards, three other Swiss skiers in the world Cup points collected. Gino Caviezel was 14., Cédric Noger (25.) and Daniele Sette (29.) lost in the second run, a lot of time.

world Cup giant slalom of men: 1. Pinturault (FRA) 2:41,96. 2. Zubcic (CRO) 0,45 back. 3. Kristoffersen (NOR) 0,72. 4. Odermatt (SUI) of 0.90. 5. De Aliprandini (ITA) 1,21. 6. Kilde (NOR) of 1.34. 7. Meillards (SUI) 1,60. 8. Luitz (GER) of 1.67. 9. Faivre (FRA), and Nestvold-Haugen (NOR) 1,69. – Also: 13. Kranjec (SLO) 1,90. 14. G. Caviezel (SUI) of 2.04. 25. Noger (SUI) 3,26. 29. Sette (SUI) 4,16.

discipline standings, giant slalom (7/9): 1. Kristoffersen 394. 2. Pinturault 388. 3. Zubcic 368. 4. Kranjec 364. 5. Ford (USA) 267. 6. Nestvold-Haugen 249. – In addition: 9. Or Mat 211. 11. Meillards 167. 14. G. Caviezel 138. 26. Murisier (SUI) 60. 29. Noger 46. (phr)

Created: 02.03.2020, 12:30 p.m.