COURCHEVEL, France : Marco Odermatt celebrated his second gold of the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday after winning the men's giant slalom in a Swiss one-two with Loic Meillard that dashed Austrian hopes.Marco Schwarz had to settle for bronze after leading the first leg for Austria, whose skie
COURCHEVEL, France : Marco Odermatt celebrated his second gold of the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday after winning the men's giant slalom in a Swiss one-two with Loic Meillard that dashed Austrian hopes.
The World Cup overall leader was only the fifth male skier to win both the downhill and giant slalom at the same championships. "I actually didn't expect the win, Marco skied so well in the first run, he did some mistakes in the second run that helped me for gold.""Emotions in the downhill were way bigger I guess, that was a surprise for me, for everybody. The relief was as well bigger," he said.Schwarz said he was happy with the bronze, his second medal of the championships after silver in combined."The pressure was on.
Austria led the medals table at the 2021 championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo but has so far failed to strike gold in both men's and women's events in France, with only two slaloms to come this weekend.
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