Copper Mountain SuperG: Odermatt wins, Bosca in top 10

The speed season starts with a success for Marco Odermatt, who makes it two for two in the first two World Cup races. The Swiss champion wins in the super-G at Copper Mountain, a very beautiful but almost new track for all athletes. Not for Odermatt, apparently, as the Swiss star closes the race in 1’07″70, and wins ahead of two Austrians: the experienced Vincent Kriechmayr, just 8 hundredths, and Raphael Haaser at 13. Well, overall, the Austrians, who place four athletes in the top six of the rankings, making their voice heard less than three months before the Olympics in Milan Cortina.

The Austrians are doing well.

Guglielmo Bosca’s excellent race, that comeback, after last year’s injury, for Guglielmo Bosca, who closes in eighth place 61 hundredths behind Odermatt, setting the best time in the third sector. A race that gives confidence to the Piedmontese, able to stay among the best at the first seasonal test. Also good was the performance of Dominik Paris, who only three days ago had sprained his left ankle. His recovery was prodigious and the 36-year-old Carabiniere from Val d’Ultimo finished in 11th place 85 hundredths behind the leader. He is followed in 13th place by Giovanni Franzoni, 91 hundredths behind, and a good test especially in the most technical part of the course.
A little more behind Mattia Casse, who leaves 1″29 to the leader, author of a few too many inaccuracies. Away by 1″43 is Christof Innerhofer. Alliod closes at 2’12”, 2″35 the delay for Marco Abbruzzese.

“I tried but I didn’t find those feelings like I had in training – admitted Paris -, so I preferred not to overdo it and not to go to the limit. Some passes were good, but to stay in front you still need a lot of work and you have to analyze each pass well to understand how to deal with it in the best way”. Friday will be the turn of the giant slalom, with the first run at 6 p.m. Italian time, and the second at 9 p.m.

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