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Dressen deprives Feuz of dessert and Switzerland of a quadruplet

02/13/2020

Thomas Dressen deprived Switzerland of a quadruple on Thursday in Saalbach © KEYSTONE / AP / Marco Tacca

02/13/2020

Beat Feuz is not (yet) sure of winning a third consecutive downhill Globe.

The “fault” to the German Thomas Dressen, who won with 0”07 ahead of the Bernese (2nd) in Saalbach, the scene of the antepenultimate winter race in the discipline.

Already victorious on “his” snow from Garmisch-Partenkirchen twelve days earlier, Thomas Dressen (26) has also spoiled a party that would have been sumptuous within Swiss-Ski: Mauro Caviezel was indeed ranked 3rd ( at 0”09), Carlo Janka 4th (at 0”26) and Niels Hintermann 5th (at 0”49)!

However, this is only part of the discount for Beat Feuz. The Emmentalois, 33 years old since Tuesday, will tackle the descent of Kvitfjell on March 7 with a margin of 194 units over Thomas Dressen. He would then have to descend the Cortina finals to register the 7 “small” points that he lacked.

Thomas Dressen, who picked up his fifth World Cup success, is the last runner to stop Beat Feuz from becoming the fifth man to win three Globes in a row downhill. Fourth in the specialty classification (3rd if we remove Dominik Paris, injured), Vincent Kriechmayr points to 256 lengths.

20 of 25

Beat Feuz, who had to settle for a 6th place at Garmisch, in any case found his usual place on the podium on Thursday. The 2017 world champion of the queen discipline has hoisted himself onto the platform in 20 of the 25 descents contested since the start of the 2017/2018 season!

The pill is harder to swallow for Mauro Caviezel. The Grison was indeed still in the lead at the last intermediate score, with 0”38 ahead of Thomas Dressen and 0”47 on Beat Feuz. It is however simply his second downhill podium, after his 2nd place obtained in November 2018 at Beaver Creek.

Carlo Janka, already 4th in downhill at Saalbach in 2015, and Niels Hintermann, never better ranked than 6th so far in the discipline, complete a superb overall Swiss result. Which is strangely similar to that of the descent of the 1989 Worlds in Vail, where a German (Hansjörg Tauscher) had deprived Switzerland of a quadruplet.


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