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Boston Globe
27-03-2025
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- Boston Globe
Swiss star Marco Odermatt picks up latest crystal trophy and breaks it at World Cup finals
'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 — four in GS, two in downhill, three in super-G, and four for capturing the overall crown. He can afford to break a few. He's not planning on ordering a replacement trophy, either. Advertisement 'It will be a nice history about it,' he said of the broken GS award. Oops - Swiss racer Marco Odermatt accidentally broke the base of his crystal globe while celebrating for winning the season-long GS race … he said it makes for a nice story … — Patrick Graham (@pgraham34) Odermatt went into the final GS of the season with the crown already wrapped up. He finished the race runner-up to his teammate, Loic Meillard. Then, they received their hardware. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up First up was the medal ceremony for the winners of the race. Then, another ceremony to hand out trophies for the season-long standings, in which Odermatt was followed by Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen and Meillard. Odermatt was celebrating with his Swiss team when the accident happened. It's not the first time Odermatt has broken a trophy. He went out to celebrate his first World Cup podium finish 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 finished in a combined time of 2 minutes, 15.21 seconds on a warm day at Sun Valley. He beat Odermatt by 0.95 seconds, while Kristoffersen finished 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 said of competing against his teammate, Odermatt. Switzerland's Loic Meillard won the men's giant slalom at the World Cup Finals in Sun Valley, Idaho. Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press Asked how well Odermatt is racing right now, Meillard cracked: 'At the moment, I guess I'm better. But [always] he's pretty good, yes.' Advertisement To think, Odermatt struggled to start the GS season with two 'DNFs' — did not finish. He finished on the podium in the next seven races, including three wins. 'Hopefully it's not bad luck' to break a trophy, Odermatt said with a laugh. '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.'
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Swiss star Marco Odermatt picks up latest crystal trophy and breaks it at World Cup finals
SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — Marco Odermatt was in the finish area picking up the pieces after collecting his newest trophy. Because he broke it. Good thing the Swiss standout has plenty of them. Odermatt went to toss his giant slalom crystal globe — it's actually glass — into the air when it clanged off the medal around his neck Wednesday following the GS race at the World Cup finals. The base shattered into several 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 — four in GS, two in downhill, three in super-G and four for capturing the overall crown. He can afford to break a few. He's not planning on ordering a replacement trophy, either. 'It will be a nice history about it,' he said of the broken GS award. Odermatt went into the final GS of the season with the crown already wrapped up. He finished the race runner-up to his teammate, Loic Meillard. Then, they received their hardware. First up was the medal ceremony for the winners of the race. Then, another ceremony to hand out trophies for the season-long standings, in which Odermatt was followed by Norwegian ski racer Henrik Kristoffersen and Meillard. Odermatt was celebrating with his Swiss team when the accident happened. It's not the first time Odermatt has broken a trophy. He went out to celebrate his first World Cup podium finish 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 finished in a combined time of 2 minutes, 15.21 seconds on a warm day at Sun Valley. He beat Odermatt by 0.95 seconds, while Kristoffersen finished 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 said of competing against his teammate, Odermatt. Asked how well Odermatt is racing right now, Meillard cracked: 'At the moment, I guess I'm better. But (always) he's pretty good, yes.' To think, Odermatt struggled to start the GS season with two 'DNFs' — did not finish. He finished on the podium in the next seven races, including three wins. 'Hopefully it's not bad luck' to break a trophy, Odermatt said with a laugh. '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.' ___ AP skiing: Pat Graham, The Associated Press
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Meillard beats Odermatt for second straight giant slalom win
(L-R) Norway's second placed Henrik Kristoffersen, Switzerland's winner Marco Odermatt and Switzerland's third placed Loic Meillard celebrate on the podium after the Giant Slalom ski racing discipline for the 2024/2025 FIS Alpine season. Christopher Levy/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Loic Meillard kept his strong form upstaged Marco Odermatt in a Swiss one-two in the final giant slalom of the World Cup season on Wednesday. Maillard held on to a first run lead to beat team mate Odermatt by a massive .95 of a second for a second straight giant slalom success, a third season win and a seventh overall. Odermatt rose from fifth the second and Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen completed the podium in third, 1.14 seconds off the pace. Advertisement Odermatt had already clinched the discipline title before Wednesday's finale, on the podium in all seven races he completed after going out in the first two, for three victories and runner-up spots each, and one third place. He ended the season with eight victories, and heads into the off-season with the same four titles as last year, overall, downhill, super-g and giant slalom. He has four overall and giant slalom titles in his career, three in the super-g and two in the downhill. "I am very happy with a another podium. Loic is in amazing shape, he deserves it and I am super happy, too. This is nice after a slow season start. I was able to keep my level," said Odermatt, who also won the super-g world title last month. "Every globe is super hard to win. The others are pushing me." Advertisement The alpine season concludes on Thursday with slalom races for men and women, and both titles are still up for grabs. Slalom and team combined world champion Meillard can complete a Swiss sweep of all men's titles if he makes up a 47-point deficit on Kristoffersen. "It will be a battle," he told Eurosport, while Kristoffersen said: "It will be painful for the mind."
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Meillard wins men's giant slalom World Cup finale
Switzerland's Loic Meillard (Patrick T. Fallon) Loic Meillard led teammate Marco Odermatt to a Swiss one-two in the men's giant slalom at the World Cup finals at Sun Valley, Idaho, on Wednesday. Meillard, who won the world championship titles in slalom and team combined last month, clocked a winning aggregate time of 2min 15.21sec. The victory was Meillard's seventh career World Cup win and his fourth in the giant slalom. Meillard, who also won at last year's World Cup finals, had grabbed the lead after the opening run in 1:10.35 with Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen second, 0.53sec adrift. Advertisement Swiss star Odermatt -- who had already clinched the overall, downhill, super-G and giant slalom titles -- came in second at 0.95sec. "It's so much nicer to win the globe if I have a good result on this day," Odermatt said. "I gave it all once again. I had a big fight on the slope but it was really nice that I did enough for the podium." Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen was third in 2:16.35 with Pinheiro Braathen eventually finishing fourth (2:16.54). Odermatt, who has won the past four overall globes, captured his fourth consecutive giant slalom globe with 580 points to 454 for Kristoffersen and 434 for Meillard. Advertisement "It sometimes feels unbelievable," Odermatt said. "Also today, it's always so much hard work where you get into this zone again where you can push, where you can fight for the top spot. It can cost you so much energy and sometimes I don't know how I manage to do it. "It's just a nice feeling." Odermatt said he was proudest of keeping his form through the grind of a full season. "I think just having this consistency and pushing every day," he said. "And still stay a nice person. This is something important for me as well." Pinheiro Braathen, who represented Norway until March 2024, would have taken the first triumph for Brazil in any discipline in World Cup skiing. Advertisement Kristoffersen took a silver medal in giant slalom at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and captured the 2019 world title in the discipline. The World Cup finals conclude Thursday with men's and women's slalom races. rg/js/mw
Japan Times
23-03-2025
- Climate
- Japan Times
Canceled downhills give Brignone and Odermatt World Cup titles
Federica Brignone won the Alpine skiing World Cup overall title for the second time when the season-ending downhills in Sun Valley, Idaho, were called off on Saturday because of snow and wind. The cancellation of the men's race allowed Marco Odermatt to add the discipline globe to his overall, super-g and giant slalom titles. Last season, Brignone finished second in the overall, slalom and giant slalom standings. "I just wanted to get better," she said on Saturday. "But to win the World Cup was just something really unexpected. And this is just amazing. I mean, the season has been crazy." Snowfalls overnight and in the morning at the Idaho resort forced organizers to postpone the start of racing at the World Cup Finals. Staff worked to clear the piste but rising winds then ruled out racing. "This is our sport," said Brignone. "Alpine skiing is an outdoor sport. And sometimes you don't race." "I wanted really to race, even if it's strange," she said. Brignone holds a 382 point advantage over Lara Gut-Behrami in the overall standings. With a maximum of three races now remaining, the 34-year-old Italian has an unassailable lead that seals her second large crystal globe as overall World Cup winner after her 2020 triumph. She also claimed the small downhill globe for the first time in her career, ending the season 16 points ahead of Austria's Cornelia Huetter and 34 ahead of Italian compatriot Sofia Goggia. The 34-year-old Brignone, who won the giant slalom world title in February, has already clinched the giant slalom World Cup globe and holds a five-point lead over Gut-Behrami in the super-G ahead of Sunday's scheduled final race. In the men's category, Saturday's cancellation meant the 27-year-old Odermatt won the downhill competition by 83 points from Swiss compatriot Franjo von Allmen. "Winning a globe is always something special," said Odermatt. "Winning a downhill globe is the biggest of the little globes." Odermatt also collected four globes last season. "I don't know what the globes record is, but I'm happy to have lots of them," he said. Another Swiss, Alexis Monney completed the downhill top three. "It's hard to explain our domination," said Odermatt. "If you have a flow in the team, everything is easier for everyone." The finals continue on Sunday with the women's and men's super-G, before the shorter slalom events from Tuesday to Thursday.
