The Swiss in the lead after the first heat in front of Kranjec and Kristoffersen. Without Kilde, he could already close the accounts for the victory of the World Cup. Tenth of the Vine
The last contender for the general World Cup (Kilde) is not there and in Kranjska Gora Marco Odermatt could already arithmetically close the accounts for the second consecutive trophy and also put the mortgage on the specialty one. Since the Olympic gold medal in Beijing onwards, the Swiss has won 5 giants, never got off the podium in the other 4 contested, he also won the world title. And in the first heat on the Podkoren he showed once again why: he made a mistake in the second stretch, but Pi restarted the engines and left everyone at least half a second behind. In 1’07”60 he leads with 53/100 on Kranjec and 54/100 on Kristoffersen. At 65/100 there is Brennsteiner, at 80/100 there is Pinturault, at 94/100 Schwarz. And the best of the Azzurri, Filippo della Vite, paid for the mistakes from the middle of the track onwards with a 1″78 delay. At the second intermediate he was ahead of Odermatt. Luca De Aliprandini ended an attacking heat at 2”07 (in 14th place).
The other blues
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Zingerle (18th at 2″60) and Giovanni Borsotti (27th at 3″57) also qualified for the second heat.
The second heat is scheduled at 12.30.
March 11, 2023 (change March 11, 2023 | 10:59 am)
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