Linus Straßer finished third on the podium at the World Cup Slalom in Palisades Tahoe. The Munich native was unable to maintain his half-time lead in the US ski resort and had to admit defeat to Manuel Feller from Austria and the Frenchman Clement Noel.
In the overall slalom ranking, the 31-year-old is now 204 points behind the leader Feller with three races still remaining and therefore only has a theoretical chance of winning the small crystal ball.
After an excellent first run, Straßer went into the decision as the leader with a lead of four tenths of a second. Even then he got off to a great start and was three quarters of a second ahead. On a difficult course and on a somewhat battered slope, he lost more and more time – in the end, the TSV 1860 Munich athlete was 0.38 seconds behind Feller and 0.10 seconds behind Noel.
