Dominik Paris last on the Stelvio

The words of Dominik Paris

Cyprien Sarrazin takes the Stelvio, Mattia Casse è sixth while Dominik Paris fails his eighth feat. The 29-year-old Frenchman scored his second career World Cup victory in Bormio (Sondrio, Italy), the first in the downhill since the parallel in Alta Badia in 2016. The transalpine found the courage to face without hesitation an icy and treacherous Stelvio, stop the stopwatch on’1’50″73 and precede by 0″09 the Swiss Marco Odermatt who therefore still sees postponed the’appointment with the first downhill victory.

Sarrazin and Odermatt interpreted the race differently from the competition, as also told by the gaps that are already growing with Canadian Cameron Alexander, third at 1″23. At the foot of the podium, fourth place for Justin Murisier (+1″81) who precedes Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr, winner in 2022, who pays 2″07 from Sarrazin. And behind him, there is Mattia Casse, sixth at 2″15 to pick up a personal best in Bormio where he was ninth twelve months ago. The 30-year-old of the Fiamme Oro è was excellent interpreter of the upper part of the Stelvio only to lose contact with the best in the heart of the track, from the’mouth of the Carcentina.

Similar discourse for Florian Schieder: the South Tyrolean è also started well only to leave a few tenths in the crucial section of the track and finish fourteenth at 2″67. Just behind, good eighteenth place for host Pietro Zazzi: for the Valtellinese è the best result of his career in the top circuit, with 2″84 behind, while Christof Innerhofer and Guglielmo Bosca finished the race in 29th and 30th respectively. Narrowly missing out on entering the points zone then were Giovanni Franzoni (34th at 3″74) and Nicolò Molteni (35th at 3″76)

The’entry of the Carcentina also betrayed Dominik Paris. The six-time winner of the Stelvio descent è found himself unbalanced by a bump and lost grip, still completing the test 6″72 behind. Also no dice for Alexander Åmodt Kilde, who stopped after one minute into the race, and overall leader Marco Schwarz, who fell on his debut day on the Stelvio. “Too bad, è it went like this. I tried to push hard, I knew Sarrazin had made a big time and I wanted to try to get on the podium. I got unbalanced by the bump and fell, too bad. In the superG I hope to do a little bit’ better, I try to put all the details”.