Zubcic explained the bad form in the USA: I had to manage in those conditions, and I didn’t do it

It’s mid-December and the World Cup season is slowly kicking into high gear. The skiers did not have much time to recover their strength and rest their muscles because more of us this weekend čeka technical program in a cult French ski resort, Val d’IsereuOn Saturday, the giant slalom is scheduled (first run at 9:30 a.m., second at 1 p.m.), and on Sunday Filip will be joined by the rest of the Croatian national team, Samuel ColleagueEast You are born and Company Angryć.

Number 13 follows Zubčićau Val d’Isere. Čak finished the giant slalom three times in 13th place, and his best ranking is čfourth place from 2023. Last season, he finished in tenth place, and he retired twice, in consecutive seasons, in 2021 and 2022. Let’s add that Zubčić it was on this ski resort that he won the only podium in the slalom, there in 2021.

– We did two training sessions on European, hard snow. I feel good and I am looking forward to the race. I received information that the track is not overly icy, as it always is. The snow is hard and aggressive, the weather is nice and it will be a good race – announced Zubčić.

He looked back on the American tour that brought joy and disappointment.

– I had a great race in Copper and after a long time I was on the podium, we expected something similar in Beaver Creek. But something totally opposite happened. The snow, for me, was quite difficult because the surface was soft. But you need to know how to manage in such conditions. I didn’t do that that day and I got a very bad result. It’s a sport, it happens and we move on – concluded Zubčić, who will find out the starting number for the giant slalom on Friday night.