The masters of the Stelvio speak. Kriechmayr: "Perhaps my best race". Kilde: "Vincent super, now the super-g"

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Interviews with the first four of the Bormio downhill, with Odermatt regretting "not having taken the necessary risks to get on the podium".

Wednesday 28 December 2022 5 minutes reading time

Deprived of a totem like the three-time Olympic champion Matthias Meyer, with a somewhat subdued Daniel Hemetsberger and in the end close to the top ten, the Austria of speed today clung completely to Vincent Kriechmayr. And on the most demanding track of the World Cup, downhill number 5 of the season exalted the whole class of the reigning double world champion in the speed sector, at the second season after the sprint race brought home to Val Gardena. Today was another story and the 31-year-old from the Wunderteam simply enchanted, clearly winning for his first time on the Stelvio: "This is the hardest downhill of the year, obviously you want to win it in the space of a career - he declared Kriechmayr in the post-race, via the OESV press office – It was one of my best races, perhaps the first ever. I wasn't among the fastest at the bottom, where I suffered a lot, but it was enough". James Crawford also dreamed for a couple of minutes of his first triumph in the CdM, but the third podium with 2nd place 4 tenths from this Kriechmayr makes the 25-year-old Canadian smile all right. “It was a crazy race, this track is really brutal. I can only be happy with my test, and tomorrow I'll try again...". The first two favorites for the super-g scheduled for Thursday, again from 11.30, will still be Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Marco Odermatt, already masters of the first two events between Lake Louise and Beaver Creek. The Norwegian, third today, took the first podium of his career in the downhill on the Stelvio, reinforcing a leadership in the discipline that sees him with a margin of 99 pts over Odermatt. “I'm happy – his comment collected by our correspondent Alessandro Bergomi – The difference with Kriechmayr was made in the upper part in particular, but Vincent was incredible. The super g? I'll try to express my best skiing (he won this race a year ago in Bormio, ed) and... nothing else”. Marco Odermatt finished fourth, almost a second and a half behind Kriechmayr, but in the end the placement is more than good even if, for the second time this season, the leader of the general CdM did not get the podium. "I don't understand how he managed to lose so much in the high corners, but evidently the others risked more and I was too conservative - the analysis of the Nidwalden to Eurosport microphones - We try again in super-g, hoping in a better race”.

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