Marco Odermatt (SUI/Stöckli) took an enormous step in the direction of securing his third successive Audi FIS World Cup Downhill Crystal Globe with a close to flawless efficiency in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.
With the stress on after a gold-free Olympic marketing campaign, Odermatt was again to his perfect, discovering a contact down the demanding Kandahar course that nobody may match. The roar in the end space with arms outstretched confirmed simply what a fourth Downhill win of the season, alongside the accompanying 100 factors, meant.
Final season Alexis Monney (SUI/Stöckli) was a kind of who pushed Odermatt all the way in which in the Downhill Globe race, however having struggled to search out his greatest this time round, the 26-year-old’s efforts on Saturday signalled a welcome return to kind. Matching Odermatt by way of the steep high part, the margins have been tight with solely a slight error on the decrease flats dropping Monney again into second, 0.04 seconds behind his teammate.
A 3rd red-suited skier on the rostrum was maybe no shock for a nation that has dominated the pace occasions of late, however the identification was.
In his earlier 5 World Cup Downhills, Stefan Rogentin (SUI/Fischer) had completed outdoors the top-24 4 occasions, with 14th in Wengen his greatest outcome. However out the gate third, the 31-year-old powered again to his greatest to say a 3rd Downhill podium of his profession.
All eyes have been on Franjo von Allmen (SUI/Head) when the just lately topped three-time Olympic champion pushed out from the gate because the final of the highest seeds. However a wild journey, after which the 24-year-old complained he was “too direct”, left von Allmen down in sixth and barely holding on to his dream of a primary ever Crystal Globe.
Vincent Kriechmayr (AUT/Head) and Giovanni Franzoni (ITA/Rossignol) tied for fourth however at 1.20 seconds again, neither ever actually threatened the Swiss sweep.
