CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Swiss skier Marco Odermatt made essentially the most of a tough course to win a World Cup males’s super-G on Sunday for his second victory in two days.
Odermatt prolonged his lead in each the general and super-G rankings as his nearest challenger, Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, was amongst 10 top-30 opponents who failed to complete.
Odermatt was removed from clear on the difficult Olympia delle Tofane course, however he got here by means of a tricky part about 30 seconds into the race. Skiers have been coming over a roll and approaching a double left flip the place many have been going too quick to make the subsequent gate.
“It was on the restrict. It was a really tough flip to get the timing proper. On the course inspection, everybody noticed it a bit otherwise,” Odermatt mentioned.
Dwelling favourite Dominik Paris was zero.76 seconds again in second place for his first podium of the season. Austrian skier Daniel Hemetsberger was 1.03 behind in third.
Decrease-ranked skiers have been nonetheless taking place the route.
Odermatt’s victory got here a day after he made a triumphant return from an damage layoff, final week skipping two races to relaxation a sore left knee.
The Tofane Schuss-branded course within the Italian Dolomites is a daily cease on the ladies’s circuit, however it hosted the boys’s World Cup races this weekend for the primary time in additional than three a long time.
A slalom in Chamonix, France, subsequent Saturday is the ultimate males’s World Cup race earlier than the February 6-19 world championships in Courchevel and Méribel.
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