Feller fights for podium at the slalom in Val d'Isère!

Feller fights for podium at the slalom in Val d'Isère!

Val d'Isère, Frankreich - In Val d’Isère, the mostly expected slalom World Cup of men took place today, where strong performance and dramatic competition captivated the audience. The Austrian Manuel Feller is in third place after the first round and has a good chance of his first podium this season. It is 66 hundredths of a second behind the surprising leading Steven Amiez from France, but the deficit is anything but insurmountable. Amiez, who went into the race with the start number 10, showed an outstanding performance that fans created for euphoric mood, especially in view of the lack of the injured Clément Noël, who had recently won the first two slaloms of the season.

strong competition and comebacks

In the close competition, the leading Amiez of Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen, who is only 32 hundredths of a second behind the French, is in second place. However, Feller doesn't just have to assert himself in front of Kristoffersen and Amiez; Loïc Meillard from Switzerland also mixes and after a solid first run takes the sixth place with a deficit of only two tenths on feller. Meillard, who was already on the podium in Levi, could also cause surprises, while his compatriot Daniel Yule and Ramon Zenhäusern disappointed and could not move into the second round.

The comeback from Marco Schwarz is particularly remarkable. After almost a year of injury break thanks to a cruciate ligament tear, he returned brilliantly and is currently in tenth place. Despite a mishap just before the flat piece, which prevented a better placement, he can look back on a promising return. The second round of the city master Feller and his competitors starts at 1 p.m. All eyes are aimed at their next steps, while the audience is waiting for the next thrill, such as laola1.at and Solothurnerzeitung.ch report.