Marco Odermatt makes Swiss skiing history. He wins the giant slalom in Alta Badia and is the sole Swiss record holder with 41st victories.
Marco Odermatt remains the king of Alta Badia. The man from Nidwalden wins the classic on the Gran Risa piste for the fourth time in a row, and for the fifth time in total.
Odermatt was in third place after the first run of the race, which was accompanied by discussions due to the piste conditions, so for once he found himself in the role of the hunter rather than the hunted. And Odermatt obviously felt right at home in this starting position.
In the second run, he took the lead with the best time and achieved his 41st World Cup victory, making him the most successful Swiss Alpine skier in these statistics. Pirmin Zurbriggen had once also achieved 40 first places.
Odermatt finished 85 hundredths ahead of a competitor who outdid himself. Frenchman Léo Anguenot, whose 13th place in the first of two giant slaloms at the beginning of March in Aspen, Colorado, was his best result in the World Cup to date, surprisingly came closest to the great champion in terms of time. The Norwegian Alexander Steen Olsen, winner of the first giant slalom at the end of October on the Rettenbach glacier, completed the podium. The Croatian Filip Zubcic, who was leading after the first run, dropped back to 4th place.
Second best Swiss was Gino Caviezel. The man from Graubünden, who did not perform as well as he would have liked in training, was nevertheless able to work his way up 12 places to 12th in the second run. Loïc Meillard went the opposite way. The Frenchman slipped from 10th to 16th place and thus found himself directly ahead of Luca Aerni, who, one week after his exploit with 4th place in the giant slalom in Val d'Isère, gave a further taste of his progress in his second discipline. Fadri Janutin also secured World Cup points with 25th place, while Thomas Tumler was eliminated in the second run after strong first turns.
The discussions about the condition of the piste had already started after the inspection in the morning. The criticism went so far that the racers even refused to tackle the race.
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