Kriechmayr threatens to miss the Lauberhorn races

Kriechmayr threatens to miss the Lauberhorn race due to Corona. Unvaccinated Olympic champion Kummer is quarantined in Beijing. And: Turkish national soccer player dies in a car accident. The most important sports news at a glance.

Alpine skiing: Rast is the only Swiss highlight in the Schladming slalom – 4th place

Camille Rast is in very good shape.

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(sda) Camille Rast took the next step towards the top in the World Cup slalom in Schladming. The Valais was fourth in the race won by the American Mikaela Shiffrin. Rast missed the podium by just twelve hundredths of a second.

With their best result so far in the World Cup, Rast stepped into the breach for Wendy Holdener and Michelle Gisin. Holdener from Schwyz, who was in third place after the first run, was eliminated in the second, Gisin from Obwalden in the first run after a threader.

Shiffrin celebrated her second win of the season in slalom. With a total of 47 triumphs in the pole forest, she is the first person ever in alpine ski racing with so many victories in a discipline. Ingemar Stenmark had achieved 46 first places in the giant slalom. Petra Vlhova took second place to secure her early victory in the overall slalom ranking this season.

The women competed for the first time on the Planai slope, on which one of the season’s big slalom highlights takes place in the men’s World Cup. The replacement race for Flachau was held in Schladming. The relocation had become necessary because of the high number of cases in the Salzburg region.

Schladming (AUT). Women’s World Cup Slalom: 1. Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) 1: 32.66. 2. Petra Vlhova (SVK) 0.15 back. 3. Lena Dürr (GER) 0.93. 4. Camille Rast (SUI) and Chiara Mair (AUT) each 1.05. 6. Leona Popovic (CRO) 1.37. 7. Mina Holtmann (NOR) 1.50. 8. Laurence St-Germain (CAN) 1.51. 9. Amelia Smart (CAN) 1.68. 10. Maria Therese Tviberg (NOR) 1.72. Further: 21. Katharina Liensberger (AUT) 2.73. 22. Aline Danioth (SUI) 2.86. – 24 of the 30 finalists classified. Retired, among others: Wendy Holdener (SUI) and Ali Nullmeyer (CAN).


Ice hockey: The HCD has no chance against a formally strong Servette

(sda) Servette is high in the National League: The 4-0 win against HC Davos was the Geneva’s sixth win in their last seven games. Servette remains in the fight for a play-off spot at Lausanne and Bern.

In the groundbreaking goals to 1-0 and 2-0, the HCD provided benevolent assistance. Both the shot by Tanner Richard in the 5th minute and the finish by NHL-proven defender Sami Vatanen at the beginning of the middle third were decisively deflected by a Davos player.

In the first game since December 23rd and the cancellation of the Spengler Cup, the HCD was shockingly weak. Dominic Nyffeler, who was loaned from Kloten in the Geneva Gate, was hardly ever challenged. Ultimately, the older brother of Lakers goalie Melvin Nyffeler needed 18 saves for his first shutout in the National League.

The champions and record champions EV Zug also returned to the championship after 19 days. Central Switzerland won in Ambri after a 0-2 deficit with 3-2 after extra time. The decisive goal in overtime was scored by Samuel Kreis.

Ranking list: 1. Friborg-Gottéron 34/71 (115: 84). 2. Rapperswil-Jona Lakers 35/67 (116: 88). 3rd move 33/65 (105: 79). 4. Biel 35/64 (104: 83). 5. Davos 35/62 (103: 88). 6. ZSC Lions 35/61 (116: 96). 7. Lugano 34/51 (99:98). 8. Geneva / Servette 34/47 (88:99). 9. Lausanne 33/46 (88:94). 10. Bern 33/45 (93:90). 11. Ambri-Piotta 36/40 (86: 101). 12. SCL Tigers 35/32 (101: 127). 13. Ajoie 34/18 (61: 148).


Alpine skiing: Kriechmayr threatens to miss the Lauberhorn races due to Corona – Innerhofer with the best time in the first training

Christof Innerhofer starts the training run in Wengen in perfect conditions.

Christof Innerhofer starts the training run in Wengen in perfect conditions.

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(sda) The Swiss are convincing in the first training session for the two World Cup runs on Friday and Saturday in Wengen. Four Swiss-Ski drivers make it into the top ten. But the fastest is an Italian: 37-year-old Christof Innerhofer.

The results of the first training session in perfect conditions and under a steel blue sky in the Bernese Oberland are not very meaningful. For most of them it was little more than a timekeeping track inspection.

Christof Innerhofer was one of the few who took it a little more briskly, he set the fastest time of the day. So far this winter, the Italian is missing a top result in the downhill. He wants to deliver this at the Lauberhorn, where he triumphed nine years ago.

The best of a good Swiss team was Stefan Rogentin, who only lost seven hundredths to Innerhofer. Behind the Bündner, the three-time Lauberhorn winner Beat Feuz (3rd), Niels Hintermann (8th) and Carlo Janka (9th) also made it into the top ten in the first training session.

This is particularly encouraging for Janka from Graubünden. He will contest his first race of the season on the track where he won twelve years ago. Janka, who suffers from chronic back pain, had actually planned this in Bormio; but he postponed the premiere again after ranks 61 and 62 in the training sessions.

On the cautious side, Marco Odermatt completed his first trip in Wengen. The leader in the overall World Cup and giant slalom winner from Adelboden last weekend entered uncharted territory on the Lauberhorn. «This descent is long and peppered with difficulties from the start curve to the finish S. There are many passages where you need to have a good plan. For me, the automatism was definitely missing », says Odermatt, whose loss of more than four seconds on the fastest time and only 45th place could be explained.

Vincent Kriechmayr had to forego participating in the training. The downhill world champion and former Lauberhorn winner waited to arrive after a positive corona diagnosis. If Kriechmayr cannot start the second training session on Wednesday either, he will miss the two runs in the Bernese Oberland.


Snowboard: Unvaccinated Olympic champion Kummer is quarantined in Beijing

Patrizia grief.

Patrizia grief.

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(sda) Although the snowboarder Patrizia Kummer from Swiss Olympic is not definitely selected for the Winter Olympics, she is already traveling to Beijing this week. There she goes into a 21-day quarantine. The 2014 Olympic champion in the parallel giant slalom did not get vaccinated for personal reasons.


Ice hockey: The SCL Tigers sign two new goalies for next season

Luca Boltshauser, here still as a goalie from Lausanne.

Luca Boltshauser, here still as a goalie from Lausanne.

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(sda) The SCL Tigers are heading into the future with two new goalkeepers. From Lausanne, Luca Boltshauser (28) will join the Emmental for two years for the next season, from Geneva / Servette the former Junior International Stéphane Charlin (21) for one year.

The contract of the Latvian Ivars Punnenov expires after this season. The loaned Robert Mayer should leave the club by the end of January.

Meanwhile, Alexandre Grenier will also play for the Tigers in the next two seasons. The 30-year-old Canadian, currently the third-best scorer in the National League with 12 goals and 30 assists, extended his expiring contract by two years.


Soccer: Turkish international Calik dies in a car accident

(dpa) The Turkish national soccer player Ahmet Calik was killed in a car accident. The 27-year-old’s car rolled over on a motorway near Ankara, reported the state news agency Anadolu. The heavily damaged vehicle was seen in a meadow next to the road. Calik’s club Konyaspor expressed their dismay on Twitter and expressed their condolences to the footballer’s family.

The defender moved to Konyaspor in the 20/21 season, before that he played for the traditional club Galatasaray Istanbul and won the Turkish championship twice with the club. For the Turkish national team, Calik was eight times, most recently in 2017.


Artistic gymnastics: legend Kohei Uchimara resigns

(sda) The gymnastics legend Kohei Uchimura announced that he would end his career. The 33-year-old Japanese was Olympic champion in the all-around competition in 2012 and 2016. In addition, from 2009 to 2015 he secured six gold medals in a row in this discipline. Most recently, he was slowed down by injuries.


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