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The Bernese Oberlander Reto Nydegger has led the Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde to the top of the world.
Marcel W. Perrenski reporter
The Bernese Oberlander Reto Nydegger shaped the career of Aleksander Aamodt Kilde in a special way. The man from Lake Brienz was the downhill coach for the Norwegians from 2012 to 2019. During this phase, Kilde developed from a place driver to a world-class athlete. But at the recent Super-G in Cortina, the 30-year-old stumbled over a harassment by his “foster father” from Switzerland.
But one after anonther. After Marco Odermatt’s grandiose comeback victory on Saturday, Nydegger, who has been the head of speed at Swiss Ski for four years, is allowed to flag out the course for the second race on the “Tofana”. Shortly after the second split, Nydegger builds in a double left turn, which transforms this Super-G, which was announced as unspectacular, into a dramatically selective competition.
Preliminary decision in the thriller about the small ball
After a solid run by Dominik Paris with the number 1, Super-G World Champion Vincent Kriechmayr (Austria) and World Championships silver medalist Romed Baumann (De) lose an enormous amount of time at this point. And like the Swiss Stefan Rogentin (2nd in the Lauberhorn-Super-G) and Loïc Meillard, the number 13 also eliminated superstar Aleksander Aamodt Kilde in this ominous passage.
Aleksander Kilde is eliminated: Odermatt also wins the second Super-G in Cortina(01:35)
Odermatt demonstrates how to master such an obstacle – in this section, the man from Nidwalden takes almost three tenths of a second off Paris and ultimately triumphs with a lead of 76 hundredths over the South Tyrolean. With his 19th World Cup victory, the giant slalom Olympic champion can probably break away from his big opponent from Norway in the fight for the small Super-G ball. With two still to go, Odermatt is 148 points ahead of Kilde in the overall Super-G standings.
In the overall World Cup, Odermatt’s lead over Mikaela Shiffrin’s partner is 313 points with twelve races to go. But how does Odermatt’s knee feel after the tough stress test in Italy, which suffered a crushed meniscus in Kitzbühel last week? The Buochser answers this question with a broad grin: “After the race on Saturday, my knee felt better than before the start!”