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Ambrosi Hoffmann – here at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch – was Beat Feuz’s first roommate in the World Cup.
Marcel W. Perrenreporter sports
Beat Feuz did not succeed in the second to last race of his career as desired. Last year’s winner had to be content with two World Cup points in 28th place. Ambrosi Hoffmann from Davos is following the Emmentaler’s farewell tour with particular interest. The 45-year-old, who won the bronze medal at the 2006 Olympic Super-G, was Kugelblitz’s first roommate in the World Cup circus.
Hoffmann remembers: «Beat shared a room with me for the first time at the 2007 World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, where he made his debut at the highest level as the newly crowned Junior World Champion. His demeanor was personable – but very self-confident. He was not shy when dealing with established racing drivers. Beat was an absolute rascal, in a good way. And in 14th place, he also classified himself in the points at his premiere in the World Cup. »
Fast despite little training
Hoffmann has very special memories of the time with Feuz in Lake Louise 2011. “Beat rarely left his room back then, he really only trained for the bare minimum. I don’t think Beat has ever sat on an exercise bike for more than fifteen minutes. But he then gave it his all on the slopes in an ingenious way. Second behind Didier Cuche, he missed victory by just a few hundredths.”
After Hoffmann’s retirement in 2012, Feuz formed a World Cup flat share with Marc Gisin. “One of our camps in Argentina, which literally fell into the water, was really legendary,” says the Engelberger. “It rained for six or seven days. Beat had the foresight to take a dartboard, which we then shot at for days. At some point I was so overplayed that my right throwing arm hurt. A game abandonment was out of the question for Beat. Suddenly he complained about sore muscles in his right arm. That’s why we continued to play with the left arm…»
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