Snowboarder from Maulburg still trains in the USA.
The further course of the season is currently unclear, but the next few weeks, that much is certain, will be a competition-free time for snowboarder Benedikt Bockstaller. The Maulburger traveled to Copper Mountain, USA, with the German national team, as planned, but the World Cup planned there was canceled due to known reasons.
The situation in Colorado is “dynamic”, announced the American Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) and canceled the start of the season overseas. The competitions, with freestyler Bockstaller in the halfpipe, should have taken place from December 17th to 19th. The national team flew anyway. According to the German association, the 21-year-old and the German team will stay in Copper Mountain until December 21st. Make the best of the situation, said a spokeswoman for Snowboardgermany of the BZ. “You want to use the good training conditions.”
For Bockstaller, the rejection came at an inopportune time, in October the Wiesentäler presented itself in great shape at the training camp in Saas Fee in the Swiss Alps. He had “physically, in terms of athleticism, stepped up again,” said national coach Michael Dammert, who is firmly expecting Bockstaller’s Olympic participation in 2022. The 13-month qualification phase should have started in Colorado. Several other snowboard world cup dates planned for the beginning of 2021, such as in France, Canada and Austria, have already been canceled according to the FiS calendar. Likewise, the Snowboard World Championship, which was to take place from February 18 to 28, 2021 in Zhangjiakou, China, near Beijing.
As of now, a World Cup could take place in Laax, Switzerland, in mid-January, including in the halfpipe.
–
