The Swiss Marco Odermatt defended the big globe for the overall championship in the Alpine Skiing World Cup. Source: SITA/AP/John Locher
PALISADES TAHOE – Swiss Marco Odermatt defended the big globe for the overall championship in the Alpine Skiing World Cup. On Saturday, he won the giant slalom in the American Palisades Tahoe and created an unattainable, more than a thousand-point lead over his rivals. Odermatt captured the overall triumph in the SP for the third time in his career and in one series.
This season, he won all seven previous “figures” and came close to winning the small globe in the discipline. For him, he only needs to get fourteen points more than the Croatian Filip Zubčič in six days in Aspen – that’s enough for him to win one hundred percent. Zubčič crashed on the Red Dog slope in the second round on Saturday.
Dvdseventy-six-year-old Odermatt has, in addition to three big globes, also two for giant slalom and one for super-G. He is the defending champion in these disciplines as well, and he is aiming for the title this season in the downhill as well. The injuries of two other aspirants for the big globe also helped to win the overall title well in advance – the season ended prematurely for Austrian Marc Schwarz and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde from Norway.
Odermatt needed 78 more points than Manuel Feller from Austria to secure the title. He went to the track as the fastest skier of the first round at the very end, and Feller was in seventh place. Any result other than a win would delay Odermatt’s title celebrations in this situation.
Suverén, who won the tenth “obrák” in a row and has not yet found a conqueror in the discipline this season, hesitated significantly at the beginning of the second part. The transition to the technically demanding slope did not go well for him, and his lead over current leader Henrik Kristoffersen from Norway was reduced to twelve hundredths. At the third intermission, he even lost to his opponent, who performed an exhibition finish. Nevertheless, Odermatt was able to gain speed in the end, even more time and confirm his sovereignty.
Kristoffersen was twelve hundredths of a second behind, and the top three was completed by the native River Radamus with an abysmal deficit of 1.37 seconds. However, the American still had reason to be happy, as he reached the first podium in his career. Twenty-six-year-old Odermatt won in the American center for the first time in his career.
Before that, he only started there last year and finished second behind Marc Schwarz. That was the last time he didn’t win “obrák”, since last year’s race in Kranjska Gora he has won a string of ten victories in this discipline. Overall, it was his 35th triumph and 21st in giant slalom. In addition to six giant slaloms, he also won the super-G in two downhills this year.
“Today was tight,” Odermatt said according to the DPA agency.
Žampa did not repeat the procedure
Photo gallery (9) Source: SITA/AP/John Locher
Slovakian Andreas Žampa also started in the race. He went to the track with number 41 and failed to repeat the performance from the previous “turnaround” in Bansk, where he advanced to the second round for the first time in the season. In the second part of the track, he made a gross mistake, had trouble maintaining stability and lost a lot of time. A moment later, trying to compensate, he made the same mistake again. After arriving at the finish line, he shared the worst time together with Sweden’s William Hansson, losing 4.27 seconds to Odermatt.
results of the giant slalom WC in Palisades Tahoe: 1. Marco Odermatt (Switzerland) 2:11.69 min, 2. Henrik Kristoffersen (Norway) +0.12 s, 3. River Radamus (USA) +1.37, 4. Thomas Tumler (Switzerland) + 1.50, 5. Gino Caviezel (Switzerland) +1.77, 6. Loic Meillard (Switzerland) +1.82, 7. Raphael Haaser (Austria) +1.88, 8. Manuel Feller (Austria) ) +1.89, 9. Alexander Steen Olsen (Nor.) +2.23, 10. Lukas Feurstein (Austria) +2.27, …. first round: 49. Andreas ŽAMPA (SR) +4, 27
overall order of the SP (after 28 out of 38 races): 1. Odermatt 1702 b*, 2. Feller 701, 3. Cyprien Sarrazin (Fr.) 684, 4. Vincent Kriechmayr (Rak.) 667, 5. Meillard 554, 6. Kristoffersen 529, …129. At. ŽAMPA 7
Standings in giant slalom (7 out of 11): 1. Odermatt 700 b, 2. Filip Zubčič (Chor.) 314, 3. Kristoffersen 298, 4. Žan Kranjec (Slov.) 285, 5. Steen Olsen 247, 6. Feller 211, …47. An. ŽAMPA 7
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2024-02-24 21:43:36
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