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Odermatt takes charge of the Val d’Isère giant
Marco Odermatt set the best time in the first round of the Val d’Isère giant on Saturday morning. Loïc Meillard comes in 3rd provisional place.
Published today at 10:45 a.m.
Odermatt is at the top of the provisional ranking.
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Two eliminations in a row in the discipline to start the season were not enough to damage Marco Odermatt’s confidence.
The Nirdwalden set the best time in the first round of the Val d’Isère giant on Saturday morning. Loïc Meillard is in 3rd place.
Under the snow, Marco Odermatt made the difference at the bottom of the course, after a cautious start. The reigning Olympic champion and world giant champion took back 29 hundredths from Henrik Kristoffersen in the last ten seconds of the race. He is ahead of the Norwegian, 2nd, by 15 hundredths.
Never better classified than 5th in giant on the Face de Bellevarde, Loïc Meillard is 0”32 behind his leader. The skier from Hérémence made just one small mistake, without which he would probably have achieved the 2nd time. But victory remains within his reach.
Beaver Creek hero Thomas Tumler, however, does not seem able to fight for victory. The Grison, who celebrated his first World Cup success at the age of 35 last Sunday in the giant contested in Colorado, ranks 6th. But Grison is 0”74 behind Odermatt. Gino Caviezel is 14th at 1”54.
Note that the neo-Brazilian Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, leader of the Giant World Cup, missed his job to concede 2”35. He was in 20th place after 30 competitors. Further on, Grison’s Fadri Janutin, 25th at 3”85, is trembling for his place in the second round.
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