Wrestling for Olympic start
“I want to collect my reward now”
Wrestling ace Markus Ragginger feels perfectly prepared for his bid for an Olympic ticket. Which AC Wals colleague Simon Marchl is also fighting for in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul.
AC Wals currently has 19 Olympic participants in its 70-year club history. Now everyone in Salzburg's wrestling stronghold is hoping that two more athletes, Markus Ragginger (97 kg, Greco-Roman) and Simon Marchl (74 kg/ Freestyle), will join them at the second and final qualifying tournament for Paris in Istanbul (Tur) by the weekend.
"The stakes are certainly high, but nothing is impossible," says sports director Florian Marchl, who, together with the new presidential team of Thomas Bösl and Peter Humer ("The motivation in the entire club is huge") and honorary president Ludwig Bieringer, is one of the biggest fingers crossed.
Ragginger was flying to the city of 15 million inhabitants on the Bosporus on Tuesday. The medal-winning sports soldier deliberately focused completely on this tournament - starting signal: Thursday.
"The preparation was perfect, I feel very good. Now I want to get my reward," says the 25-year-old Walser, but he also knows: "There are 27 nations competing, really good people who haven't qualified yet. If I want to get them, I just have to get past them." Which will also apply to Simon Marchl from Saturday.
In order to secure a quota place and thus a ticket to Paris by reaching the final or winning the duel between the two third-placed athletes.
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