Manuel Feller: According to World Cup debacle in his home country-it hurts extremely!

Manuel Feller: According to World Cup debacle in his home country-it hurts extremely!

Manuel Feller, the Austrian ski star, has to digest a painful defeat when returning from the 2025 ski championship in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. Despite the expectations of winning a medal, he ended the final slalom on Sunday in ungrateful fourth place, only 27 hundredths of seconds behind the bronze Linus Straßer from Germany. "It hurts extremely," said the 32-year-old Feller and let his feelings run wild. He emphasized that it was the greatest disappointment of his career, since he was not able to reach the hoped-for medal in his home ski area, such as Laola1 reported .

The disappointment was particularly strong for Feller because he had said before the race himself that it would be the greatest defeat in his life without staying without a medal. "I put everything on this race and put the whole focus on this day," he said, while he spoke of the positive mood of the 23,000 spectators. Despite the trauma, he could not hide his respect for the audience and was happy about the support, but said that "three beer alone" will not be enough to deal with the feeling of emptiness. He confessed that he did not risk enough in the first run and now has to deal with the idea that he was not more attacked enough to win the medal to win the medal, such as .