Solden, 24 October 2021 – It’s Marco’s Odermatt the first male World Cup giant on Solden’s Rettenbach glacier. The Swiss imposed himself by recovering the Austrian in the second heat Leitinger who with the bib 19 had surprised everyone in the first heat. Disappointing Alexis Pinturault ed Henrik Kristoffersen. Best blue Luca By Aliprandini with a decent eighth position.
Odermatt solidity
Two substantial heats for Odermatt, good at managing the lighting changes and the wall of the Rettenbach slope. Behind by 21 cents in the first heat, the Swiss recovered and won in 2’05 “94, with only 7 cents on Roland Leitinger, first halfway through the race, third was the Slovenian Zan Kranjec at 11 cents. Competition fought on the edge of cents like the women’s one and decided by details, not only the wall, which changed its lighting with the sun, but also the usual final sliding phase that also decided yesterday’s test. It disappointed last year’s general cup winner Alexis Pinturault, the Frenchman seemed not in the best of form finishing fifth at 62 cents behind the Swiss Caviezel fourth. Other disappointed Henrik Kristoffersen, who continues to struggle to return to the top, for him only fourteenth place. At home Italy results slightly better than yesterday with three athletes in the top thirty, but without particular acute. Luca By Aliprandini finished with a decent eighth place 79 cents behind the winner, while they earned Simon cup points Maurberger twentieth and Riccardo Tonetti twenty-sixth.
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