US EditionOdermatt Dominates Beaver Creek World Cup Downhill
Odermatt’s 48th World Cup win marks his third victory this season and extends his overall lead to 300 points as he prepares for the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
- Marco Odermatt captured Thursday's Beaver Creek downhill on the Birds of Prey course, marking his third victory in four starts this season.
- After unusually warm temperatures, event organizers moved the downhill to Thursday and the super-G to Friday, shortening the course bottom due to November's lack of snow.
- Odermatt posted the fastest time, clocking 1min 29.84sec and finishing 30-hundredths of a second ahead of Ryan Cochran-Siegle, while Adrian Smiseth Sejersted was third, 69-hundredths back.
- With Beaver Creek complete, Marco Odermatt widened his margin atop the overall standings to 300 points, 134 ahead of Austrian Marco Schwarz on 166, while Henrik Kristoffersen held third on 158.
- After a rare DNF at Copper Mountain last week, Marco Odermatt rebounded with his 48th World Cup victory, adding earlier Soelden and Copper Mountain wins to boost his Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics momentum.
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Marco Odermatt dominates the first World Cup descent. However, the victory of the 28-year-old alpine dominator is overshadowed by a heavy fall.
On Thursday, the quadruple holding the big crystal globe Marco Odermatt dmined the Beaver Creek World Cup downhill.
At the place of his first World Cup victory, the Swiss won a downhill victory for the first time. Kriechmayr will be fifth on the bird of prey track. The race was overshadowed by a terrible fall
In Colorado, the Nidwaldien won his third win in four races this season. He was ahead of the American Cochran-Siegle, Norwegian Smiseth Sejersted and Bernese Franjo von AllmenMarco Odermatt. He, who was left behind last week in the first round of the Copper Mountain giant slalom – a very rare mistake on his part – won his third race in four starts this winter during the Beaver Creek World Cup downhill (Colorado, USA) on Thursday.
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