Daniel Albrecht is planning to return to the World Cup ski slopes on Friday. As was stated by "Blick" and "skionline.ch", the 26-year-old from Fiesch will be at the start as a forerunner in the giant slalom of the World Cup Finals in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
This time Albrecht is not only returning to the World Cup ski circuit to give a press briefing as he did in Kitzbuehel. He wants to race exactly 414 days or 9933 hours after his horrible accident in Kitzbuehel and take advantage of the opportunity to ski in a competition-like situation on the World Championships race hill of 2011. The Combined World Champion of 2007 would have like to also start in the speed disciplines but his Coach Sepp Brunner convinced him not to do so as Albrecht had very little practice in downhill and super G in recent time. Additionally, there was only one downhill training in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Tuesday, which seems like very little for a racer who has not been competing in any World Cup downhills for over an year.
One year after his horrendous crash on the Streif piste, Albrecht announced in a press meeting in the forefront of the Hahnenkamm-race in Kitzbuehel to start racing again in the next winter season. Now it seems that Albrecht is already trying to close in on his competitors in Garmisch, before things will get serious again at the season opener in Soelden in October.
Dani Albrecht: "I think it's great that I can start again at a World Cup event, but without the pressure of having to provide a peak performance," Albrecht said.
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