Whether they aim to win or “simply” seek to rediscover sensations, all the athletes speak with the same voice when talking about this always special meeting that is Kitzbühel. “It’s a dream, a myth and the hardest descent in the world.” On the Streif, everyone has their own anecdote. “Personally, what strikes me every time is the silence that reigns in the departure cabin,” breathes Arnaud Boisset. “Well, it’s not even a cabin, it’s a building here. Anyway, even if there are always a lot of people, no one speaks. It’s a form of respect for the monument that is the Streif and the battle that awaits us.”
A battle at the end of which the Swiss hope to triumph. Their last success in Kitzbühel dates back to Beat Feuz’s victory in downhill in 2022. If he wins on Saturday, Marco Odermatt will also succeed Didier Défago, the last Swiss to have signed the Wengen-Kitzbühel double in downhill in 2009.
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