Chaos at the Junior World Championships: Weather plays crazy!

Chaos at the Junior World Championships: Weather plays crazy!

In the past few days, the Alpine World Cup in Saalbach has been characterized by unexpected weather capers. While the organizers were still blessed with a clear sky on Tuesday, a low pressure area called "Quincy" converted the competition conditions into a chaos. The departure training planned for Wednesday had to be canceled for both women and men due to strong precipitation. Instead, the departures took place on Thursday with a two -hour delay on a shortened course. This sprint departure, which only contained two curves, met with a lot of resistance from coaches and athletes, since the shortened route was above all flat, which made driving more difficult, as krone.at reported.

Another missed event followed on Friday when again strong snowfall re-nuisled the women's planned team combination-consisting of Super-G and Slalom. Harald Kirchmair, the ÖSV junior chief, explained that you could currently not estimate how to proceed and further information should be used by Team Captains Meeting on the same day. Despite these setbacks, Austria's young athletes remained calm and continued their training to prepare for the upcoming competitions. From Sundays there is also better weather and more sunshine, which could lighten the mood.

In addition, a significant departure training took place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Thursday, in which Nadine firmly set up the best time on a shortened route. The 26-year-old Carinthian was faster than the second-placed Magdalena Egger and the Czech Olympic champion Ester Ledecka with a time of four hundreds. This training is an important dress rehearsal in front of the Alpine World Ski Championship, which is due in Saalbach. The departure on Saturday and the Super-G on Sunday promise exciting competitions, even if the weather conditions are assessed as challenging, since there are good snow conditions in the upper section while raining in the lower part. "You shouldn't take that too seriously," commented the conditions, such as NÖN.AT reported.