2024-03-25 08:37:43
The record 13th canceled start of the men’s alpine ski season brought a new trophy to Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt. After two weeks of warm weather eating the snow on the track, now a storm broke out and reduced visibility, which is forbidden in modest disciplines.
So the weather failed 7 downhills, 3 slaloms, 2 giant slaloms and one super giant slalom. Only two of them were compensated and 11 were deleted.
So Odermat also took the small crystal globe in the discipline and collected four for the season. This had not been done since 2001, when the great Hermann Mayer-Herminatora did it. Mayer took home four Globes and the previous season.
Before the canceled start, the French Cyprien Sarazen also had a chance for the downhill cup, but his plans failed. Sarazen was injured before the finals in Saalbach, but returned to the track just in time for the sprints to try to fight off Odermatt.
The only ones with five globes are Pirmin Zurbriggen and Jean-Claude Killy, but those are when there was also a globe for the combination. Zurbriggen last did this in 1987.
Thus, Bulgaria finished as the 23rd power in alpine skiing in the overall men’s and women’s standings with 111 points won by Albert Popov. The expected #1 is Switzerland after Marco Odermatt and Lara Gut-Behrami won the big crystal globes. The Swiss collected 10,882 points, ahead of Austria – 9,287, and Italy – 6,817. Among the men, Bulgaria is 16th with the same asset, and the top three are again Switzerland – 6,238, Austria – 4,310, and Norway – 4,310. Among the ladies, the Austrians won very minimally .
This comes after Lara Guth’s incredible blunder on Saturday. She finished 15th in the final downhill and thus did not take any points. The Austrian Cornelia Hütter won the start and with it the small world cup in the discipline.
The canceled starts also reached into the pocket of Odermatt, who missed out on 1 million Swiss francs from skiing. Marco collected 810,000 in prize money during the season. Sarazen was second with 365.500, and third with 317.050 was Austria’s Manuel Feller, who took the cup in the slalom.
In the women’s category, 574,200 francs was collected by Lara Guth. Second behind her was the American Mikaela Shiffrin – 557,000, and third was Federica Brignone (It) – 484,000.