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The 22-year-old Swiss champion travels towards the season of consecration: in July on skis, first a 24-hour bike for support.
Saturday 20 June 2020 4 minutes reading time
He has the future written, but he will have to prove that he can truly be the absolute World Cup man, the one that Switzerland has not won for over a decade, when Carlo Janka won the general classification of the 2009/2010 season.
Marco Odermatt is the predestined, highly anticipated towards the year that could definitely launch him in the fight for the crystal ball: in 2019/2020, the 22 year old from Buochs did some general rehearsals, starting very well between the first (and only) career victory in the Beaver Creek super-g and the injury arrived in late December in the giant in Alta Badia, when he could have fought again for success (he closed 5th with a sore knee).
Lost a month of races and only partially recovered, with the ringing of the return to the podium in the giant of Yuzawa-Naeba, he expects a season without hitches to understand how much the Nidvaldese can fight with Kilde, Pinturault and Kristoffersen, clearly to be considered again the top three favorites.
Last year there were almost 800 points of departure from the Norwegian final winner, but losing many important race weekends, from Bormio to Adelboden, passing through Wengen, and still with many mistakes made and races thrown to the wind, we think in the beginning giants of Soelden and Beaver Creek. The potential to imitate the path of Kilde is all right, with the versatility from the descent to the giant, passing through combined and parallel (now crucial to be disputed, with this cup calendar), it remains to evaluate the stability over the arc of over 4 months of racing in all, just the one on which AAK made the difference compared to rivals.
Odermatt is ready to go back on skis for a month of July which will be very intense, starting from the work to be done in Zermatt, but he anticipated the outputs on the snow with the participation, two weeks ago, of a 24-hour bike ride (the native Buochs committed himself to the first part of the competition) to raise funds in favor of the families of the Canton of Nidwalden most affected by the Coronavirus.
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