The duel between Odermatt and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde did not take place on Sunday.

Like many (21 retirements in total out of 60 entered), the Norwegian was trapped by Olympia della Tofane.

To be more precise by the route made by the coach of the Swiss team who, at the end of a long and fast curve to the left, had placed a door on the right which surprised more than one a.

"It was not my day, this curve was really difficult", swept Kilde who had approached the Italian stage as the leader of the Super-G World Cup and now finds himself relegated to 148 points from Odermatt.

"Odi", 25, was not surprised by his coach's route.

Already winner the day before with 35/100th ahead of Kilde, the Swiss phenomenon flew over this second super-G in the Dolomites resort to relegate the Italian Dominik Paris, 2nd, to 76/100th, and the Austrian Daniel Hemetsberger , 3rd, at 1 sec 03/100th.

"I skied to the limit, it just happened in the curve, I knew that it was not necessary to be at the bottom, it succeeded for me but it was played with little thing", a- he explained.

"Serene"

The Swiss signed his eighth victory of the season, the fourth in super-G and the 19th of his career.

He is now 148 points ahead of Kilde in the world ranking of the specialty while there are only two super-Gs left to play this season, a maximum of 200 points to pocket.

Marco Odermatt on January 29, 2023 in Cortina © Marco BERTORELLO / AFP

He also carried out an excellent operation in the general classification of the World Cup which he won last season: he totals 1,386 points, 313 points ahead of Kilde (2nd, 1,073 pts) and 607 more than another Norwegian, Henrik Kristoffersen, specialist in technical events (3rd, 779 pts) who could take advantage of the Chamonix stage where a slalom is scheduled for February 4 to reduce his delay.

Nine days before the 2023 World Championships, all the signals are green for Odermatt who had nevertheless approached the Italian stage with some questions related to his left knee which had forced him to skip the two previous races.

"I'm leaving serene for France. The objective is to win a world championship title, we'll see what will happen," insisted Odermatt, who, to spare himself, will not go to Chamonix.

For the French team, no podium in Italy, but before "their" Worlds, the Blues can reassure themselves by saying that they are in the game, like Alexis Pinturault, 6th, 1 sec 10/100th from Odermatt but only 7/100th from the podium.

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