World Ski Championships in St. Moritz: Everything will be fine!

There is a lot to suggest that everything really will go well for Swiss skiers at the World Championships in St. Moritz!

The last two Alpine World Championships in St. Moritz have not brought Switzerland the best of luck in sporting terms. In 1974, Lise-Marie Morerod from Vaud was able to avert a Swiss zero with a slalom bronze on the second-last day. In 2003, the ski team won four medals in the Engadine resort - but none of them gold. Corinne Rey-Bellet from Lower Valais, who was murdered by her husband three years later, won silver in the downhill, while Silvan Zurbriggen from Upper Valais shone with silver in the slalom. Bruno Kernen (downhill) and Marlies Oester (combined) from the Bernese Oberland secured bronze.

14 years later, we have several very hot gold irons in the World Championships fire: Lara Gut and Beat Feuz are statistically among the safest bets for world champions.

Lara Gut has a particularly glorious relationship with St. Moritz: on February 2, 2008, the most sought-after blonde from Ticino alongside Christa Rigozzi thundered onto the World Cup podium for the first time on the "Corviglia slope" despite a fall in the last few meters as third in the downhill. Ten months later, the then 17-year-old celebrated her first World Cup victory on the same course.

At the last World Cup finals in St. Moritz, Gut also took second place in the super-G and third place in the giant slalom, twice finishing on the podium.

Beat Feuz left an even bigger mark on St. Moritz at the most recent World Cup final - although the Emmental ball lightning missed all of last season's preparation due to a ruptured Achilles tendon, he pulled off an impressive double with victories in the downhill and super-G.

And don't forget: With downhill world champion Patrick Küng and Carlo Janka, the Swiss men's team boasts two other top-class athletes. Any bets that we'll be celebrating a few gold medals between February 6 and 19, 2017?

FIS ALPINEWORLDSKICHAMPIONSHIPSST. MORITZ2017
06.-19.02.17 St. Moritz Corviglia
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