Austria's ski team hopes for a medal at the World Cup start in Saalbach!

Austria's ski team hopes for a medal at the World Cup start in Saalbach!

Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Österreich - In Saalbach-Hinterglemm, the 48th Alpine Ski World Championship begins today with a bang! Austria's skiing commands the “most difficult team competition of all time” and aim for a medal right from the start. The folding sextet, consisting of Fabio Gstrein, Stephanie Brunner, Dominik Raschner, Katharina Truppe, Stefan Brennsteiner and Julia Scheib, will start the competition at 3:15 p.m. The opening promises great with an impressive show and the first medal of World Cup history on the first day in a team parallel competition, such as krone.at reported.

Austria has the great opportunity to establish itself at the top at this incredible event. The final team was nominated after internal, exciting qualification runs. "This is certainly the big goal," emphasizes Gstrein, who is sure that the home advantage on the most demanding slope, the Zwölferkogel, is correct for successful performance. Herbert Mandl, the ÖSV Alpin boss, is full of anticipation: "This competition can be a mood maker!". It will not be a sugar, because here the athletes have to do their best on a demanding, steep course, where everyone can have any mistakes. Brensteiner, from Niedernsill, remembers the tight decisions in past championships and says: "Hopefully I don't have to apologize again this time," reports the Kleinezeitung.at .

Nervousness is buffered by experience in the team: Brennsteiner is the reigning Olympic champion in the team, troops and Brunner brought silver from previous world championships. The challenge becomes particularly exciting, since six athletes are admitted to each nation, three men and three women, and the best terms are decisive for possible tensions. "I feel comfortable in this discipline and have already celebrated success," says Raschner and highlights the perfect plan that is needed in such a competition. With these family and captivating stories in mind, the Austrian ski stars start in a possibly glamorous chapter of their career.