At the start of the season, ski racer Josef Ferstl speaks about the rigors of downhill sports, breakneck jumps in Kitzbühel and the topics of winter: above all the controversial Winter Games in Beijing.
Interview by
Johannes Knuth
Josef Ferstl has already taken pretty much everything with him in his ski racing life: He was considered a great talent, had to wait a long time for great success, suffered a cruciate ligament rupture, and then won the Super-G in 2019 on the legendary Streif in Kitzbühel, which he had been 40 years earlier Father Sepp Ferstl had triumphed twice on the descent. Last winter, a serious fall horrified his participation in the World Cup, in the new season, which begins for the downhill skiers in Lake Louise on Friday, the 32-year-old is again one of the hopes in the strong high-speed department of the German Ski Association, alongside the World Cup -Silver medal winners Romed Baumann and Andreas Sander. But Ferstl has long been expressing himself on the pressing questions of his sport – and there is a lot to talk about right now.