KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Olympic champion Marco Odermatt led a men's World Cup giant slalom Sunday to close in on his second straight season title in the discipline. Racing in sunny and warm conditions on the Podkoren 3 course, the Swiss skier was 0.28 seconds faster than Alexis Pinturault of France.
COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — AJ Ginnis’ long journey to skiing glory began on the relatively obscure slopes of Mount Parnassus north of Athens, took him briefly to the Austrian Alps as a teenager, then over to Vermont and eventually a spot on the U.S.
MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin didn't hold on to a first-run lead and was beaten to gold by unheralded Canadian skier Laurence St-Germain in the women’s slalom at the world championships Saturday.
COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Austrian skier Marco Schwarz posted the fastest time to take a big lead after the first run of the men's giant slalom at the world championships Friday. Schwarz was 0.58 seconds faster than Olympic GS champion Marco Odermatt, who has won four of the six giant slaloms on the World Cup circuit this season and took the downhill world title five days ago.
COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Competing with an elegance that makes the sport look easy. Technically brilliant. Highly successful. Humble. And Swiss. Marco Odermatt has plenty in common with Roger Federer .
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Swiss skier Marco Odermatt won a men’s World Cup super-G on Saturday in a triumphant return from his injury layoff, 10 days before the start of the world championships.
FLACHAU, Austria (AP) — While Mikaela Shiffrin is set to continue her quest for a record-setting 83rd women’s Alpine skiing World Cup win next week, her biggest idol sees even larger milestones coming up for the American.
Kriechmayr found the fastest line coming out of the start gate, as most of his rivals were already a few tenths of a second behind at the first split.
Beat Feuz, who leads the downhill season standings, came closest but the Swiss skier finished 0.17 off the lead.
"You can always do better but it was a good run," Kriechmayr said. "I had the right tactics at the start and could carry my pace into the middle section."
Last month, Kriechmayr became the first skier to win gold in both downhill and super-G at world championships since American standout Bode Miller did it in 2005.