Someone said that in the online age everything always has to go fast, fast.

Some things still seem particularly valuable even after a few days.

For example, a 59-second best-of video as a time-lapse for five months of the ski season.

Marco Odermatt is devoting himself to his past time in the snow via Instagram these sunny days and comes to the conclusion: "It was amazing."

Achim Dreis

sports editor.

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Framed by victories at the start of the season in Sölden at the end of October and the triumph at the World Cup finals on Saturday in Courchevel, the Swiss didn't achieve everything he tackled, but the most important thing: Olympic victory in giant slalom, triumph in the overall World Cup.

In addition, there was the small ball in the giant slalom, second place in the Super-G World Cup and top results in the downhill.

Old news?

no way.

The 24-year-old from Nidwald is already looking forward to the coming season.

"I can't wait." Three years ago, someone who should have known predicted his successes.

Marcel Hirscher, who dominated the Alpine Ski World Cup like no one before, predicted at the time: "He can be anything, overall World Cup winner, Olympic champion, whatever he wants." And Odermatt, the all-rounder, the Swiss army knife, so to speak, liked it.

Even if he said of himself: "It was never really a dream.

But now it feels like it was.”

Little Marco had been on skis for the first time when he was just over two years old.

His father Walter, who is involved in the Nidwald Ski Association, put him on top of it.

At the age of three and a half, the kid was already mastering difficult slopes.

The difference to other children?

"Marco is not afraid," Walter Odermatt recently told the NZZ.

If Marco ever fell, he got up, shook off the snow and kept riding.

He has retained the ability to shake off disappointment.

Last winter he went empty-handed at the World Cup, even though he was considered a favourite.

In the World Cup he had to give way to the experienced Alexis Pinturault.

And the Olympics in Beijing also began with difficulties.

In the downhill he was seventh, in the Super-G he retired.

The pressure was enormous, but he held out and won gold in the giant slalom.

His striking radiance under his blond mane has now burned itself into the collective memory of Swiss sports fans.

In addition, the boyish face of a young man who, not only because of his talent but also because of his charisma, seems like the ideal cast for the "darling of the nation".

He seems mischievous, speaks a pithy dialect and likes to treat himself to a glass.

The nice anecdote has been handed down from Yanqing, how he celebrated his Olympic victory with colleagues Loic Meillard and Luca Aerni so happily that Corinne Suter woke up.

"Wine makes you fast," Odermatt explained to his teammate, who agreed to have a glass and promptly won downhill gold the following day.

Comparisons come to mind

Although Odermatt brought in a good 565,000 Swiss francs in prize money in this World Cup winter alone, he lived in a shared flat until the end.

Although his father promoted the promotion of talented skiers in his home country, Marco always preferred to be on the slopes with his boys than with his father.

He recognized this and refrained from making a "project" out of his son, as Ferdinand Hirscher, Pauli Gut or other ski fathers had already done.

Despite all the desire for freedom, Marco Odermatt has nevertheless become a national flagship product.

This is also due to the fact that he contests his races on Swiss Stöckli skis - as the only world-class athlete.

While everyone else trusts the big brands like Head, Atomic or Rossignol, Odermatt relies on the noble, small ski manufacturer from the Lucerne region.

Which of course has the advantage that all capacities are geared towards it.

Skis, bindings and set-up are exclusively adapted to Odermatt's style.

The longing for a lasting Swiss Made winner is great in the second best ski nation.

Comparisons with the great Pirmin Zurbriggen are attempted.

Odermatt himself names Didier Cuche as a childhood idol.

However, the last highly talented Swiss to win the overall World Cup was Carlo Janka in 2010. In the same year he also became Olympic champion in giant slalom.

The parallels are unmistakable.

But the warning cannot be ignored either: Janka continued to compete in the World Cup for another twelve years, but only won three races.

Marco Odermatt smiles away at such warnings.

Because he doesn't compare.