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The Swiss trimmed 8 tenths to the world champion, third and also preceded by Bailet (first career podium). And Marco now scares Pinturault for the general, under 100 points behind. Inner out, fatal mistake at the top for Paris on a track ... devastating!
Sunday 7 March 2021 5 minutes reading time
The top race of his young career, one of the best performances seen in super-g in recent years.
Marco Odermatt simply enchants in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, giving himself his third career victory, his second in the discipline 15 months after Beaver Creek, and keeping the games open for ... everything.
The Swiss champion, already splendid 5th yesterday downhill, literally paints on a spectacular track, with very complicated passages on the French design and makes a void on anyone. Limits the gap to "only" 62 cents Matthieu Bailet, on the first podium in his career which means party postponed for Vincent Kriechmayr, overtaken by the French when he felt the super-g crystal ball in his hands. The world champion finishes third at 81 cents from Odermatt and finds the Swiss at -83 points, before the final race in Lenzerheide.
The most interesting fact, however, is the gap between Odermatt and Alexis Pinturault in the general classification of the World Cup: with the transalpine leader tenth at 2 "10 from his direct rival, Marco now finds himself at 92 points with the last six races on the horizon, starting with the technical tests in Kranjska Gora next weekend.
A bitter super-g for Christof Innerhofer, with a fatal inclination in the final stretch when at least 4th place was close according to the times of the South Tyrolean up to that point, while Dominik Paris suffered from the top, closing beyond the 20th position at 3 ”34 from Odermatt. The best super-g arrives when you don't expect it for a long time now for Beat Feuz, 4th at 1 "17 from his compatriot and also in front of Matthias Mayer, this time down from the podium (5th at 1" 28 ) and he yes out of every speech for the specialty cup.
In a race with crazy gaps, Sander is 6th at 1 "54 in front of Danklmaier and Ferstl (who throws away a possible podium), then here is the French couple composed of Giezendanner who precedes Pinturault by a cent, while on the" friend “Clarey (what a risk) and Allegre end up, on a par with Franz and Meillard among the most anticipated men.
Nothing to do also for Emanuele Buzzi, out when he was trying to get that top ten that could have led him to the finals in Lenzerheide, which will not be there for Sappada, waiting to see Tonetti and Marsaglia, the last two Azzurri at the start.
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