What a final in Courchevel! Kriechmayr jokes everyone, Odermatt celebrates the general and Kilde the downhill cup

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Thrilling men's descent, with Feuz 3 ° ahead of Kilde, unable to overtake him for the historic five. "Odi" a breath away from his first downhill triumph, which only takes away the Austrian, while Paris remains far from the podium but can settle for the top 3 final in the discipline.

Wednesday 16 March 2022 6 minutes reading time

A swing of emotions, on a beautiful track (and which at the World Cup in February 2023 will be even more so for the period of the year with more snow and a probably more "breathed" track in the final stretch) like the new Eclipse of Courchevel, which gave a splendid opening of the World Cup finals. The men's descent, in fact, saw many important situations follow one another and all the champions of the discipline challenge each other for something ... big. First of all, even if there was no doubt about it, arithmetic has arrived that delivers the first absolute crystal ball of his career to Marco Odermatt, who becomes the fifth Swiss in history (after Luescher, Zurbriggen, Accola and Janka ) to succeed in the enterprise after a dominating season. The top, for the 24-year-old from Nidwalden, would have been to dress her with her first downhill triumph and it seemed all done, before a missile called Vincent Kriechmayr arrived, also capable of exploiting his enormous technical qualities on a track so tough (and also a slightly better visibility than the first to go down, the same goes for Odermatt) to beat him by 34 cents. Third, 54 cents from the world champion, he closes with another podium but without the incredible (and unique in the history of the descent) consecutive five crystal balls in the queen discipline, a Beat Feuz which is not enough to beat by 31 cents the direct rival for the downhill cup. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, at the end 4th with 85 cents, can in fact celebrate the double with the super-g for 13 points after 11 battles of the season. And the Norwegian took a risk, in particular with a mistake made 3 corners from the end, but his first CdM of the most coveted specialty is simply a well-deserved trophy for what AAK did in this amazing year that will see him finish in second place as well. general. Dominik Paris was the best of the Azzurri, albeit far from the podium: it was already understood that, in the second part of such a tortuous track, today would be very difficult for "Domme", but adding to it the error of Matthias Mayer (who will roll over 2 seconds behind) and a decent 6th place, at 1 ”54 from Kriechmayr, came the satisfaction of another podium in the final classification of that downhill cup that such a champion would deserve in his showcase. In the end, Paris closed with just 5 points over Marco Odermatt, while in the top ten level of the day the second of the Austrians, Daniel Hemetsberger excellent 5th, finished in front of the Val d''Ultimo jet, behind him instead Crawford, Cochran -Siegle, Danklmaier and Ganong. On the other hand, a decent Matteo Marsaglia is eleventh, while Christof Innerhofer has never entered the race and does not take home points, finishing at the bottom of the standings with 3 ”34 behind. Tomorrow the super-g, but in the meantime today at 11.30 the women's descent will start with Sofia Goggia close to a dream trio.

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