ÖSV hope Scheib hopes for the little bit of luck

The favorites in World Cup giant slalom The women today in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (9.45 and 1:15 p.m./Live ORF 1) are different. A repetition of Anna Veith’s triumph at the 2013 World Cup would be a huge surprise this year. Go for ÖSV Stephanie Brunner, Katharina Liensberger, Julia Scheib and Katharina troops into the race.

This season, Julia Scheib (3rd in Sölden and 4th in Kranjska Gora) ensured the only top five placements of the Austrian team in the Giant slalom World Cup.

The 26-year-old Styrian has already shown that she is strong on the ski and in the head. In the giant slalom at the end of December at Semmering, after a failed first round, she said best time for the second – and drove her.

But the ÖSV hope is still struggling with its consistency. “I am the most uncontested of those who are the fastest,” she says in her inimitable calm way. The favorites in the giant slalom are “very clear,” says Scheib. “But I hope that it will be a good day where happiness is on my side.”

In the World Cup race she was not so lucky yet, in Courzevel in the team competition she ended up in 4th place in the ÖSV quartet, and she left in the giant slalom.

In the World Cup team competition in Saalbach a week ago, she finished behind, the team left out in the first duel.

She can “take away” from the “0.0 percent” competition. But she is satisfied with the preparation for the giant slalom. “I was able to train here.” She hopes that this will bring you a certain advantage. Just like the home audience and a handful of friends and relatives.

The “snow crystal” slope promises an exciting competition. Favorites are mainly Alice Robinson and Sara Hector, who are almost on the front of the World Cup. “It is a slope on which you have to have a lot on the bill,” says Scheib. “It’s really everything inside. We have a flat piece and transitions. It is important to take Speed ​​with you because it is not the steepest terrain. ”