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Austria to the Russian leader Berthold-out: "Right here, great"

APA. Mathias Berthold, Race Director of the Austrian Alpine men's ski team, told the APA - Austria Press Agency on the Olympic downhill in 2014 in Krasnaya Polyana, the weather at the ski area in the western Caucasus foothills, his overall impression of the Olympic slopes and the scene of the future Winter Games:

APA: How do you exit?

Berthold: ". Cool, very cool site from the course setting forth one could ensure that one or the other a little bit different if you make that would make a bit different, I think this is a hammer due to depart.."

APA: Is it necessary to enforce the departure purely as many goals?

Berthold: "It would have been the top left and right a little more space, you could set fewer goals, but still back and forth to control the pace and especially after the middle of a long piece is still down, where quite a few curves in there.. Since it is extremely wide, since one could also take out maybe two goals and set it a bit more back and forth, that the curves are getting longer. "

APA: Bode Miller is of the opinion that too many gates inside. Once the skier would have to risk more to win. What do you think?

Berthold. (. Reichelt / NB) "Here you have to risk getting to win top Hannes has tried in practice and just missed a goal you must still risking But one has to distinguish between risk and fall and get hurt.. or risk and no more then just get a goal or make a mistake that affects not so serious that it goes down like half a year. But the athletes are of course not entirely objective, for that matter. Everyone knows his strengths and so did he then have to leave. "

APA: Miller says that this departure for a skier is manageable if you let him take up more speed. Didier Cuche has said something similar and meant that we should just build the jumps accordingly and not like hills. Is this addressed jump, the Lake Jump, too far?

Berthold. "It's actually really nice clear jumps to 60, 70 meters, and with the snow we get will say no, 80 Our boys, 'Wow, a super horny jump' Everyone loves to jump and the.. lower section of the course. This is just again a subjective opinion. Here are 80 athletes at the start. No matter what exit you will always have divided opinions. "

APA: Is this weather with snow and fog, a foretaste of what one might flourish here in two years at the Olympics? Berthold: "That may I say on Wednesday when elevated, with the coaches, because we will still boot up a few times and different concerns than today, when it is so beautiful, the mountain is in the upper part exposed to extreme the weather... Because no wood is, it is for the athletes even more difficult because they have no clue on the left and right. It's just all know there are only a few rocks. February is here a precipitate month, the games are at this time. "

APA: The extremely icy conditions are a result of all the fresh snow and the water so necessary preparation ...

Berthold:... "... Yes, you have to prepare with water, you have done a hell of a job exit from top to bottom durchzupräparieren with water, which is an immense amount of work That makes almost no other operators except perhaps why Kitzbühel must. they complain not, they have done their best. This icy, it has become because of the cold temperatures. If you had not gone in with water and above it would be very soft, complaining would again very much. "

APA: Is the departure of a case for your racer?

Berthold. (. Reichelt / NB) "I do not see anyone who has major problems to Hannes, it fits easily, she is good, of course, extremely well Those who had started a couple of problems to be to inject it, and that fits. it already. "

APA: They are the only race in Krasnaya Polyana before the games. How important is it that entrains as much video footage?

Berthold: "It is important that you have a lot of material, but I'm already assuming that we will be more often to train there."

APA: What is your overall impression of the Olympic ski slopes?

Berthold:.. "Actually, very positive, the super-G is certainly beautiful, slalom slope is nice, the Riesentorlaufhang is the terrain ago it a bit easy on the side, but it depends on how the track preparation is then whether it difficult or easy is. I think it's really great here. "

APA: How well do you feel off-piste?

Berthold. (. Newly opened / NB). "The ski storage are perfectly in the hotel we are the first in the rooms, the bedding is new, the towels are new and do not dry properly, but they try and are friendly, the security controls. only requires more than else where. in the ski room and the elevator you have to go through security checks and then asks you, maybe one or two along the way. But when I think of the Olympics in Salt Lake City, which was completely covered, what the have listed. In relation cosiness of it is here. Of course there will be strict at the Olympics again, but since we are anyway the top of the Olympic village, where everything takes place. "

They met again in Russia: Killy and Schranz
P.L. Jean-Claude Killy and Karl Schranz, who had delivered 1968 huge headlines to Olympia met at the Olympic rehearsal for 2014. Killy was President of evaluation committees of IOC in Sochi, Karl Schranz, a friend of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The "cold war" between Killy and Schranz is long settled, even if the events of Olympia in 1968 are still very present both in Grenoble. Killy at that time won gold in downhill, giant slalom and Slalom and was the big star.

But the games were demoted in Austria to the great scandal. In the final slalom Schranz as the alleged winner was disqualified namely.

In the second run of the slalom, which took place in dense fog, had Schranz which run directly supplying roch, because a track worker was in the range. Schranz was allowed to repeat the course and achieved the best time. "Then it was said that the stop from Schranz and the piste workers would are not directly connected, because Schranz had previously committed a gate error." The country review was therefore not legal. Schranz justified the door error but with the distraction by the track workers. After long deliberations of the jury, Schranz was painted with 3: 2 voices from the standings. That this Killy won his third Olympic gold, had all possible guesses in Austria come up and it gave verbal gaffes in both Austrian and French media.

Jean-Claude Killy
Jean-Claude Killy negotiating some gates in the Men's Slalom event during the 1968 Winter Olympic Games. (IOC Olympic Museum/Allsport/Getty Images)The biggest international star to emerge from the Grenoble Games was alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy. The 24-year-old Frenchman swept all three men’s alpine events, matching a feat first accomplished by Anton Sailer at the 1956 Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo. However, Killy’s slalom victory did come with some controversy. Austria’s Karl Schranz complained to officials that a mysterious man in black had crossed his path during the second heat, causing him to skid to a stop. Schranz was given permission to restart his heat and then beat Killy ’s time. However, a jury of appeal disqualified the Austrian, claiming that Schranz missed a gate before the spectator’s interruption. Killy was later awarded the gold. His triple gold medal performance on home soil had many observers dubbing the Games "the