Odermatt away with the wind and still third

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Marco Odermatt makes a big false start in Aspen – after 27 seconds the world champion is seven tenths behind Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde! For Hans Knauss, Austria’s number 1 ski expert, it is immediately clear: “If someone like Odermatt loses so much time in this flat stretch without any noticeable mistakes, something can’t be right. It is suspected that he was slowed down by a gust of wind .”

Sunday overview asks several coaches who are in the starting section. The unanimous answer: with Odermatt and Vincent Kriechmayr, there was really wind in the game! The fact that the Olympic giant slalom champion was finally on the podium in a World Cup downhill for the fifth time this winter is due to an excellent performance in the windless area.

Odermatt is happy with his childhood friend

From the third sector onwards, the native of Nidwalden is consistently faster than Kilde to secure third place, seven hundredths ahead of Krichmayr. “I would have signed for the race straight away if I had gotten third place,” Odermatt emphasises. “I didn’t really expect to finish on the podium in this fairly easy descent. But of course it hurts a bit when you find out afterwards that you missed out on the win in the first leg, even though I felt like my start was good.”

An impeccable sportsman, the 25-year-old does not want to take the missed victory to the wind. “Aleksander is an excellent starter, I still have room for improvement in this area.” With his 21st World Cup victory, Kilde secured the small ball for victory in the downhill general classification.

Shortly before the award ceremony, something else happened that made Odermatt very happy: his friend Marco Kohler finished 24th in only his second World Cup race with starting number 49 and thus achieved 7 World Cup points.

This is also particularly remarkable because the career of the 25-year-old from the Bernese Oberland was declared by some doctors three years ago after he lost his left knee completely in a fall in the Ziel as a forerunner on the Lauberhorn. -S.

FIS race director criticizes organizers

Freiburg’s top talent Alexis Monney came up with a violent departure yesterday. According to the initial investigation, the 23-year-old, who finished in the top 11 in the downhill classics in Wengen and Kitzbühel this year, came through this fall without serious injuries.

The OK of these Aspen races received a damning verdict from FIS race director Marcus Waldner. “Aspen is a beautiful place, unfortunately people here don’t know how to run a ski race properly,” grumbles the South Tyrolean and adds: “We lost a lot of time on Friday’s descent, which after 24 starters, because it was the track workers five minutes to replace a gate post.”

The question is therefore whether the ski circus will also be a guest in the American chic ski area next winter. However, there is certainly another race on the schedule in Colorado on Sunday – Marco Odermatt could secure the small ball in the penultimate Super-G. His lead over Kilde currently stands at 148 points. That means in plain language: with a third place, the Buochser could make everything clear.

Source : Blick