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Garmisch-Partenkirchen (dpa) - No downhill run for Kira Weidle in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, tricky slalom double for Linus Straßer in Chamonix: a good week before the start of the world championships, the two German ski racers are facing complicated dress rehearsals in the World Cup.
While the Starnberg woman suffered a severe setback at her home event before the race day, the Munich-based man has to find a way out of the small form depression after the last two failures.
He is looking forward to the slaloms in France, asserts Straßer, even if the weather with snow and rain could get "a bit wild".
Snow, rain and wind on top of that: the women in Garmisch have experienced this all week.
Because of the persistent bad weather, both downhill training sessions on Thursday and Friday had to be canceled because.
Because no race in the fastest and most dangerous discipline can be held without trial runs, the downhill on Saturday was replaced by a Super-G.
On Sunday (both races at 11 a.m. / ARD and Eurosport) there will be a Super-G.
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“The cancellation is of course a shame for me,” says Weidle, the only German starter at the foot of the Zugspitze.
Two years ago she finished third in downhill in Garmisch, last year she finished 13th. In the Super-G races, she did not do as well.
"For tomorrow it's called: attack," announced the 24-year-old on Friday.
For the outsider in the Super-G, however, it should be more about not taking too great a risk in front of Cortina - especially since she is slightly bruised after a thumb operation, among other things.
In the Dolomites, the sports soldier wants to be the only German top downhill runner after Viktoria Rebensburg's resignation.
"She has established herself in the wider circle of favorites," says national coach Jürgen Graller of the German press agency.
“You can already see a consistency in her when the conditions are right.
That makes us feel good. "
This feeling should have been improved in Garmisch - but nothing will come of the descent.
Because of the weather forecast, the cancellation was not unexpected.
"We are happy that we can offer two races at all," says the German alpine boss Wolfgang Maier in the hope that the conditions will at least improve a little.
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There are also two races ahead of Straßer in Chamonix, in which he can go hunting after the famous early form from the beginning of January.
He caused a sensation with a victory in Zagreb and second place in Adelboden - most recently he was eliminated in Flachau and Schladming.
In the sensitive discipline, the psyche is now in demand.
"Linus is so solid that he can put up with it," says Felix Neureuther, an ARD expert, of his former teammate.
In addition, the expected conditions on Mont Blanc could be similar to those in Zagreb.
The slope for the two slaloms on Saturday and Sunday (9:30 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. / ARD and Eurosport) is not steep, and the slope is probably not as icy as in Schladming.
Head coach Christian Schwaiger is looking forward to the change in weather and called out Chamonix to “restart” - so that the momentum fits again at the World Cup.
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