Olympic champion as a giant and winner of the big globe last season, the nidwald ogre won, on Sunday, October 23, in Austria, the first winter race.
Le Monde
The Swiss Marco Odermatt easily won, Sunday, October 23, the giant of Sölden, Austria, the first winter race. He clearly is ahead of his dolphin of the Beijing Games, the Slovenian Zan Kranjec, and the Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen.
Marco Odermatt therefore starts with the new season. It was his second victory in a row in Sölden. Winner of the general classification of the 2021-2022 season, the Swiss continues its series of nine consecutive podiums by giant in the World Cup, while signing its eighth victory in the discipline.
Leader after the first round, “Odi” was able to tame the snow warmed by the sun of the second route, to keep its competitors at a distance despite an imbalance at the start of the second round which could have cost it dear. He thus takes the lead in the general classification, he who occupied the first place of this classification during the entire last season.
Alexis Pinturault exceeded
For the French, on the other hand, the season starts badly. Alexis Pinturault, former winner of the general classification during the 2020-2021 season, certainly succeeded in an honorable first round (8 e ), but he collapsed in the second, to take only the twentieth place on arrival. Classified twenty -first after the first round, the Frenchman Thibaut Favrot achieved a good comeback, to finish tenth. As for Mathieu Faivre, he must be satisfied with the twenty-fourth place.
The two men’s descents from the Zermatt-Cervinia World Cup stage scheduled for the weekend of October 29 and 30 having been canceled due to the lack of snow, the next meeting with men is the November 13 in Lech, Austria.