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The new winner of the World Cup, second in the Courchevel descent, confesses an incredible detail. Kilde and an now unexpected encore: "When I finished behind Beat, I thought it was over". Kriechmayr, winner of the day: "One of the most difficult races of my career".
Wednesday 16 March 2022 5 minutes reading time
A thrilling finale, beautiful and of a high technical level among the masters of a descent season that has given many protagonists, but who have always remained on a very high quality standard (what did not happen in slalom, for example) and have brought to a final race on the splendid “Eclipse” of Courchevel, forbidden to the faint of heart.
The cup went to Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, but what a pain to defend those 23 points ahead of Beat Feuz, which remained 13 once the eleventh descent of this very long year ended in fourth place, 3 tenths from the great rival who got on the podium but was beaten by Kriechmayr and Odermatt.
First of all, word to the winner of the last specialty race, that Vincent Kriechmayr who had suffered from the Olympics onwards, but on such a technical track he was exalted and already dreams of a world championship in 2023. "It was one of the descents most tiring of my career - the Cortina 2021 world champion confessed to oesv.at - I gave everything and more would not have been possible, I managed to do a dream test, really at the top.
I wanted to show what I am capable of after a mediocre season. It's important for self-confidence next season ”.
It was the day of the arithmetic triumph of Marco Odermatt, who after 12 years brings back the absolute World Cup in Switzerland maintaining over 300 points of margin (3 races from the end) against Kilde, but listen to what the champion said Rossocrociato after the race, speaking on SRF TV, he who today touched again the first triumph of his career in descent, with the fourth place of honor obtained in the queen discipline. "I have mixed feelings, before my departure I had planned to try to fit in between Beat and Kilde - confessed Odermatt, referring to that placement that would have been decisive for delivering the fifth consecutive crystal ball to Feuz - I really wanted to help Beat, but unfortunately I didn't succeed.
Since that time, I have apologized to him at least 20 times. If I had been a few cents slower, it would have been enough for Beat. The fact that now I have the mathematically safe World Cup is nice, but after Kranjska Gora it was clear to me that Kilde would not win three races besides the slalom in the finals ”.
And the phenomenon norge, who repeated the super-g cup with the most coveted one for a sprinter, told his chills to the ORF: “I shivered until the end, it was incredibly dramatic. When I crossed the line in second place behind Feuz, I said to myself that I should congratulate Beat, who made it.
It was a great battle until the end, today I was lucky not to fall on the first jump, I felt my heart beating in my throat with shock ”.
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