Lake Louise Super-G, disappointment Dominik Paris: “I should have done better”

The Merano native finished the race a long way from the podium

Having fallen in the downhill race in Lake Louise 24 hours earlier, won by Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Dominik Paris was at the starting line of the Super-G, also in the Canadian resort, with bib number 2.

Hopes of a prestigious result on the snows of Banff National Park were dashed against the overwhelming power of Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt, in his second win of the season after his victory in the giant in Soelden, Norway’s Aleksander Kilde, winner of Saturday’s downhill, placed second, and Austria’s Matthias Mayer, third.

Odermatt and Kilde run a separate race, but the Swiss turns out to be truly unreachable especially in the middle and final parts of the Canadian slope, finishing first with a time of 1’32″53 and responding to the Norwegian’s success in Saturday’s downhill. Kilde is still second, however, 37 hundredths behind his rival. In third place was a good Matthias Mayer, 78 hundredths behind Odermatt, but very good because he put in a great performance on the track after being stopped for more than a quarter of an hour at the starting gate due to Mauro Caviezel’s fall.

Guglielmo Bosca, bib 44, was excellent and was able to finish 11th, 1″36 from Odermatt, but more importantly 5 tenths from fourth place.

Dominik Paris was only 18th, 1″64 behind Odermatt, partial charged more in the second and third sectors. “I was not able to pull the race in the right way,” Paris said at the finish line in statements reported by the official FSI website. Today I had no information with number 2 at the start, but I could and should have done better.”

Twenty-fourth was Christof Innerhofer at 1″81, while 27th was Mattia Casse. 39th is Matteo Marsaglia at 2″57. Good race for Giovanni Franzoni, who started with bib number 34 and finished a short distance from Casse. Unfortunately, however, the Brescian straddled a gate and was disqualified. Also out for a mistake was Matteo Franzoso, as well as Nicolò Molteni.