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The Swiss are also convincing in Lombardy: Marco Odermatt is third, Loïc Meillard fourth. And an amazing young man from Nidwalden has wonderful days.
A shout of joy in the cloudy sky of Santa Caterina: Marco Odermatt is third and leads the giant slalom classification.
Alessandro Trovati (Cornerstone)
It’s crazy with this Marco Odermatt. It’s the third there, scream «yes» in the cloudy sky of Santa Caterina, from which thick snowflakes fall – and the ski world acknowledges it with a shrug.
A place on the podium has, of course, become something for Nidwalden. That’s how great his talent is. So clean and reliable his driving style.
He is only 23 years old. And it’s not even two years since he first placed in the top 3 at Kranjska Gora in March 2019. Previously, Thomas Tumler had surprisingly broken the spell of the Swiss giant slalom team, who had not held a podium in almost eight years. Top eight ranks have been added since Tumler’s hit at Beaver Creek 2018.
Nobody defends them so much new Technical team strength like Odermatt. The podium in Lombardy behind Croatian Filip Zubcic and Slovenian Zan Kranjec, who also form a community of coaches due to lack of alternatives, is Odermatt’s sixth at the World Cup. It is It catapults him to the top of the giant slalom classification after second position at the start in Sölden.
Snappy surprises even more
It’s been a long time since a Swiss won this: Didier Cuche. In the 2008/09 season. Odermatt could be his later successor.
Absolutely have the giant slalom for the swiss since the to import– a showcase discipline ghe wanders. This is also due to Loïc Meillard, one of Odermatt’s first pursuers. The 24-year-old from Neuchâtel finished fifth in Sölden and in Santa Caterina he missed the podium in fourth place.
But that doesn’t stop there with them strong athletes in Helmut Krug’s team. Gino Caviezel still remains, third at the start of the season – now removed. Or Justin Murisier, who is slowly getting back on track after many knee injuries and is in 25th place in the second winter giant slalom.
Y: There is Semyel Bissig, who is currently experiencing wonderful days in his still young ski career. In the 2017/18 season, the 22-year-old from Nidwalden made his first three World Cup appearances, all in slalom. He was eliminated twice, once he did not make it to the second race. He recently decided to give up his old fashion show discipline because he was too small. for the dance between the bars, hence their reasoning. It seems to have done everything right.
Eight days ago he started his first parallel race in Lech-Zürs. He finished fifth. Now he followed his first giant slalom. Bissig worked his way from 28th to 16th in race two with the fifth fastest time.
The cheers of the Swiss giant slalom runners shouldn’t be that fast die.
