Odermatt insatiable, Azzurri within a step of podium finish

Victory for Marco Odermatt

Marco Odermatt also puts the giant slalom cup in his trophy cabinet, with his eighth win of the season, his 11th consecutive, despite several mistakes. 2’07″87 his final time and 800 points, unreachable for anyone. Second place for Loic Meillard at 14 hundredths, third place for Atle Lie McGrath at 81 hundredths.

Very close to the podium were the Italians. Luca De Aliprandini è found himself on the icy Aspen slope and put in two aggressive, and very fast, runs and in the end è the best of the azzurri with a fifth place finish at 1″03 from the Swiss and only one hundredth lost in the second run from the best. Vinatzer, in the first one, had contained the gap from Odermatt in 80 hundredths, scoring better partials than the Swiss in the two middle sections of the pre-course, a sign of the Gardena native’s growth in the discipline during this season. In the second, he contained the gap by scoring the first discipline top 10 of his career, finishing sixth at 1″13.

Giovanni Borsotti è went out in the second heat, while Filippo Della Vite (3 tenths ahead of Odermatt at the first intermediate), Hannes Zingerle and Tobias Kastlunger had gone out in the first. Too bad for Simon Talacci, who was left out of the second run by only 4 hundredths. Vinatzer è the first of the Azzurri in the specialty ranking, 15th with 133 points. He is followed by De Aliprandini in 20th place with 104, then Della Vite 23/o with 87 and Borsotti 24/o with 86.