SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Marco Odermatt was within the end space choosing up the items after gathering his latest trophy.
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As a result of he broke it. Good factor the Swiss standout has loads of them.
Odermatt went to toss his big slalom crystal globe — it is truly glass — into the air when it clanged off the medal round his neck Wednesday following the GS race on the World Cup finals. The bottom shattered into a number of shards.
“I have some pieces of glass now to share with the coaches,” Odermatt cracked. “It’s a nice story.”
Odermatt now has 13 World Cup season-long trophies — 4 in GS, two in downhill, three in super-G and 4 for capturing the general crown.
He can afford to interrupt just a few. He is not planning on ordering a alternative trophy, both.
“It will be a nice history about it,” he stated of the damaged GS award.
Odermatt went into the ultimate GS of the season with the crown already wrapped up. He completed the race runner-up to his teammate, Loic Meillard. Then, they acquired their {hardware}.
First up was the medal ceremony for the winners of the race.
Then, one other ceremony handy out trophies for the season-long standings, during which Odermatt was adopted by Norwegian ski racer Henrik Kristoffersen and Meillard.
Odermatt was celebrating together with his Swiss group when the accident occurred.
It is not the primary time Odermatt has damaged a trophy. He went out to rejoice his first World Cup podium end in 2019 and dropped the trophy.
“I have half a piece of it still at home,” Odermatt said. “It’s a nice story.”
As for Wednesday’s race, Meillard held on to his first-run lead and cruised to the GS win on a sun-splashed course. Meillard completed in a mixed time of two minutes, 15.21 seconds on a heat day at Solar Valley. He beat Odermatt by 0.95 seconds, whereas Kristoffersen completed third.
“At the end, what’s important is to push each other, try to learn from each other, to always get better year after year,” Meillard stated of competing in opposition to his teammate, Odermatt.
Requested how effectively Odermatt is racing proper now, Meillard cracked: “At the moment, I guess I’m better. But he’s pretty good, yes.”
To suppose, Odermatt struggled to begin the GS season with two “DNFs” — didn’t end. He completed on the rostrum within the subsequent seven races, together with three wins.
“Hopefully it’s not bad luck” to interrupt a trophy, Odermatt stated with fun. “It was probably a little bit of a symbol that my beginning of the season was not the very best. So after recovering from that, winning another globe was incredible.”
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