Odermatt won in Alta Badia – black seventh

However, from six tenths of a second behind the Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen he only had two left. Kristoffersen attacked brilliantly in the second run, but remained second in front of the van Deer company founder, Marcel Hirscher, who was present. Third was Zan Kranjec (SLO/+0.92). Like the day before, the best Austrian was Marco Schwarz in seventh place.

Odermatt finished second in the first RTL race on the Gran Risa on Sunday. “There’s always pressure, you never want to lose. It’s the biggest pursuers on the podium, which shows you always have to attack,” said Odermatt in an ORF TV interview. The Swiss leads in the giant slalom and overall World Cup. He hadn’t noticed anything about Kristoffersen’s great run in the second heat. “That was a minute before I start, you’re in the tunnel. Everyone accelerates at the front, you know you have to attack yourself,” said the Swiss.

Although Schwarz missed a further improvement of his best RTL result so far as seventh, the sixth on Sunday was still happy. “On the whole I’m satisfied. I can live well with seventh place,” said Schwarz in an ORF TV interview. The shape fits, it’s just a matter of little things so that “it also fits for the very front.” On Monday he went too straight in the upper part of the second run. “I have to trust myself a bit more and do it mercilessly.”

Raphael Haaser improved in the second round from 13th to ninth place (+2:31 sec.), Stefan Brennsteiner fell back from 9th to 17th place (+3.05). Like Fabio Gstrein and Lukas Feurstein, Roland Leitinger missed qualifying for the second round.

It was a relief for Haaser after a bad training accident the day before. He had an inside ski error on Sunday before the first round, could no longer react and rammed his own (Fischer) service man. He suffered a broken leg in the accident.

Manuel Feller, for whom the trip to Alta Badia was unsatisfactory, was eliminated before the first split in the first round. “A completely normal inside ski error,” said the Tyrolean. “In the passage where that happens, I lost a lot of time yesterday in the second round. That’s why I tried to drive the turns and make them fast, and I overdid it a bit,” he analyzed his end.

Lucas Braathen, who had won on Sunday, also had to say goodbye early after a driving error. “I had a good feeling at the start today. The first section was good,” said the Norwegian. “That’s racing, racing is always at the limit. The angle was a bit too sharp in this section.”

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