Yesterdays´s runner up and third traded their spots, but that was about the difference between yesterday´s and today´s result in the men´s event. The winner was once more Anton Blasbichler (ITA). “I do not know what I am doing, I am just having a lucky streak and it all works out well for me”, he smiled from the podium. But he is not really that ignorant about the secret of his success: “I have been on the brakes a bit more than all my colleagues because it does not really matter how fast you approach a curve, it is more important how fast you come out of it”, he explained. He still suffers from his training injury, but it did not cause him any problems: “I had a good feeling in the morning already and no troubles with my injured leg.”
The only men who could have stopped Blasbichler`s streak was his team mate Martin Psenner, who had been in the lead after the first run, but eventually had to settle for the second place. “I had a really good first run, but in the second run I bumped into a hole which cost me time which I could not catch up on the way down,” said Psenner, who finished second after three third places in a row.
He and the third Italian fellow on the podium, Florian Breitenberger, agreed on the reason why the Italian are dominating the scene like hardly ever before: “We did a lot of training together, we get along with each other, encourage each other and try to find the best settings for the material together.” The fifth times in both runs were good enough to secure Florian Breitenberger, the third Italian on the podium, the third place. “I went into the second run quite reluctantly, still having my team mates crash in mind”, said Breitenberger. The race had been stopped for about 15 minutes after Thomas Damian (ITA) had had a bad crash in which he injured his ancle, a destiny he shared with the young American Vincent Schultz.
Tomorrow the women´s and doubleseater´s events will be held in Oberperfuss, then the RED BULL World Cup will move on to Latzfons in Italy, where Anton Blasbichler has got the chance to break his own record of consecutive four wins.

Photo by Bernhard Kogler