Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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Two years after his first victory in the World Cup, the Swiss exalts himself in the first poker game in Colorado, clearly ahead of Matthias Mayer, but how many regrets for Pinturault! Cases in the top ten, Paris comes out almost immediately (without references starting second).
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Sixth career victory, the second of the season after the inaugural giant in Soelden, an encore on the "Birds of Prey" that he tamed in 2019 (last time around here) for his first hurray in CdM, third seal in super-g and leadership of the increasingly solid general.
Well, the long weekend in Beaver Creek really started in the best way for Marco Odermatt, who literally dominates the first of the two super-gs in Colorado, relegating Matthias Mayer to second position, with a good 78 cents behind, while Andreas Sander snatches an unexpected third, considering the many mistakes of other big names in a very complicated race, almost a second behind the Nidwalden for the first podium in the top circuit after the world silver downhill in Cortina.
Odermatt who, starting with n ° 7, studied very well what Mayer and Kriechmayr did in particular, painting 68 almost perfect seconds and risking only a little on the final jump; just the world champion and holder of the SG crystal ball, a little too conservative, remained down from the podium by 4 cents (1 "02 from the winner), in turn preceding by a little more than a tenth the one who perhaps has the most regrets of all. We are talking about Alexis Pinturault, who finished 5th at 1 ”13, but had the pass for 2nd place practically in his pocket when it seemed most done, before making a mistake in the final and leaving almost 8 tenths on the plate.
One hundredth behind the transalpine, who loses further ground in the long-distance fight with Odermatt, here is the great return of Adrian Smiseth Sejersted, but in 7th position you can also smile for the good result of Mattia Casse, on the track where he was fourth in 2015 (on the day of Marcel Hirscher's only super-g victory), he pays 1 ”32 and finishes not too far from the dream of the first podium in CdM. A good sign after the difficulties of Lake Louise, in a completely different technical context.
The Italjet instead sheds bitter tears for Dominik Paris, first and foremost not exactly lucky with the bib draw, having drawn a 2 which in the end will be decisive in such a situation, given that the pitfalls of the Norwegian track, practically the blue leader he could not see them with Matthieu Bailet who immediately fell in front of him. “Domme” tried with great courage on the initial wall, signing what will later remain the best partial overall (with over 3 tenths on Odermatt), only to make a mistake just before the link and finish out.
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