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The Swiss starts where he left off, dominating the giant on the Rettenbach already conquered a year ago. "I didn't know what to expect, I trained a lot downhill for the speed opening". And the thought for the founder of Red Bull (who supports him as a top athlete) who disappeared in the past few hours.
Sunday 23 October 2022 5 minutes reading time
A phenomenon, not only of the giant but of this new era of skiing.
Marco Odermatt is the master of the white circus, even if the opponents are not lacking and for the encore in the World Cup he will have to contend with Kilde (today out, but already back to excellent levels in giant) and Kristoffersen in the first place, but the departure of the fantastic 25-year-old rossocrociato is one of those to frighten everyone.
The challenge of Soelden's Rettenbach is again his, in an even more convincing way than a year ago, when he beat Roland Leitinger by 7 cents; despite a wall attack uncertainty in the 2nd heat, "Odi" was able to precede Zan Kranjec by 76 cents and by almost a second Henrik Kristoffersen, who appears the only one, together with Lucas Braathen (2nd after the 1st heat, suffered visibility in the second), perhaps to be able to compete for the specialty cup against one of the many Swiss aces.
A special victory, the twelfth in CdM, the one that Odermatt brought home today in the Oetztal: both because he continues his streak of podiums between wide doors (9 after the 8/8 of last season at cup level , 10 considering also the Olympic gold), in full “Hirscher style”, both because it comes a few hours after the death of a man and a great lover of sports and winter disciplines, in which he has invested a lot.
We are talking about Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder of Red Bull who has supported, among others, the same Nidwalden phenomenon for years now. Marco showed all his gratitude to the Austrian entrepreneur, and then told about his race. "It's fantastic to win here, you never really know what will happen after the summer of training only - the words of the World Cup holder, reported by" Blick "- Last year I told myself that winning in Soelden it was a good start, now I can say that in the last few days we have worked and perfected the giant, after the long training block dedicated to the descent in view of Zermatt-Cervinia ”.
Odermatt, in fact, had already confessed to having prepared in Chile the “Speed Opening” officially canceled yesterday due to lack of snow on the Gran Becca. Impressive to think of the level already shown today between wide doors with little specific training in the discipline, even if it is probably the one where he has more margin than his opponents. “The second heat? I knew that the track would be presented in complicated conditions - added the Swiss' '97 class - and that we would all make some mistakes. That's why I kept fighting when I had that stumbling block at the beginning of the wall ”.
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