The Swiss returns after the stoppage with a knee problem and wins ahead of the Norwegian. But in the wake of the two rulers of the season is the blue with the best result in the specialty. Paris late, Innerhofer falls
What a show in Cortina: in the first men’s super-G ever held on the Olympia another episode of the duel between Odermatt and Kilde is staged and this time the winner is the Swiss, returning after the break taken after Kitzbuehel for a sore knee. Nine meters (and 18 hundredths of a second) divide the two dominators of the season in the end (Odermatt finished in 1’25″57 and at the finish line he put ice again on his aching left knee), at the end of a race complicated by a track that it especially tested the first ones at the start (three of the first 4 came out). But behind the two monuments there is once again Mattia Casse, third at 49/100 and for the first time on the Super-G Cup podium.
The race
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Casse had the lead until halfway through the race, but in the final stages he was unable to stay ahead of the two dominators of the season. Third place in super-G is the first podium in the specialty for the 32-year-old from Piedmont (and Bergamo by adoption) who is enjoying his best season ever. “Being back on the podium in Italy is a satisfaction. And then it’s the first in the discipline in which I’ve collected my first results, I’m happy” commented Casse to Rai microphones. Matteo Marsaglia also finds a place in the 10: 10th at 98 cents and in line with the podium up to the last intermediate. Twenty-eighth at 1”79 Matteo Franzoso. It wasn’t Dominik Paris’s day, fast in the top section but struggling in the technical corners: he finished at 2 ”92. For Guglielmo Bosca a delay of 2″71 (40th), out Christof Innerhofer, who fell badly from a jump and ended up in the nets while he was in the running for a top 5, and also Florian Schieder.
The numbers
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Odermatt stretches to the top of the World Cup classification – 1286 points, 213 more than Kilde – and specialty – 440 points, 48 better than the Norwegian. Another super-G is scheduled for tomorrow.
January 28, 2023 (change January 28, 2023 | 16:22)
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