PALISADES TAHOE – Swiss skier Marco Odermatt settled in the lead after the elite thirty of the 1st round of Saturday’s World Cup giant slalom.
In the American resort of Palisades Tahoe, he led by 25 hundredths of a second ahead of the Frenchman Alexis Pinturault, the third was the Norwegian Rasmus Windingstad, who lost 0.29 s. Slovaks did not start in the race.
The Olympic champion in this discipline from Beijing, the recent world champion and the leader of the discipline and the SP Odermatt found a rhythm from the start, perfectly timed the turns and avoided mistakes.
Norwegian Lucas Braathen was fourth after the first round (+0.33 s), Austrian Marco Schwarz fifth (+0.40 s) and Odermatt’s compatriot and silver medalist from Courchevel Loic Meillard was eighth, 69 hundredths behind. The second round was scheduled for 22:45 CET.
