Anna Gasser starts her last World Cup

But Anna Gasser is far from tired of snowboarding. Especially because she still knows things that would be improved.

For example with the Olympic Games in Beijing in February 2022 when she Cab Double 12 Gold took: “I was not satisfied with the jump,” says Gasser today.

I’m sorry, what?

Read correctly. The leap to her second Olympics in the Big Airwho ensured that Anna Gasser should remain the only snowboard Big-Air Olympic champion for another four years, has a massive blemish for the 33-year-old today. “This photo of Olympia, completely stretched over head, without a grave – I just want to get this photo away from my repertoire,” says the exceptional athlete. “It may look spectacular, but that’s a no-go for the snowboarder heart,” she explains.

Peculiarity of freestyle

From this, the Carinthian nourished her incentive to continue learning. “So that I can stop with something I am satisfied with,” she says. “This is probably a peculiarity in freestyle sports. It is not about a certain time that you have to break, but about your own limit or your own style.”

This is a point that the two -time Olympic champion has recently emphasized. In November she said in the courier interview: “I used to do what was necessary for victory-now I see that I am proud of my snowboarding.”

The new leap Cab Triple 12that she often made this year is technically similar to the Olympic jump. “But he’s nicer. And that was so important to me. With an axis and a style that I am proud of.”

Anna Gasser starts with the Slopestyle qualification in the World Cup in the Engadine (10 a.m./live ORF Sport+). The competition was preferred because the weather prospects for the slopestyle are bad towards the end of the week. The route that needs to be mastered is longer than usual. The outcome of the competition is completely open.

For Gasser, the result is irrelevant: “I have a lot in my head, which I have not been able to show yet. I just think that I can still present myself as a better snowboarder. It is not about a result. I just want to be better than one or two years ago.” They prefer to end up in fourth place, “but with a run with which I am 100 percent satisfied”.

The woman who has achieved almost everything in her career is even believed.

Clemens Millauer and Hanna Karrer at the start

At the start in the slopestyle qualification of the snowboarders and snowboarders will also be tomorrow Clemens Millauerwho recently came back from a knee injury, and the young Styrian Hanna Karrerthat celebrates her World Cup debut at the age of 17. “The kickers are extremely large, very much at the limit,” says Millauer. Despite his injury that has just been survived, he was well received, “but the course is very long. This is very challenging, especially at 2,500 meters of altitude.”

Hanna Karrer is looking forward to the competition. “It would be really cool if I could go to the final at slopestyle and at Big Air, but I don’t stress myself because it is my first World Cup.”