The World Alpine Ski Championships are taking place in Courchevel, France. Polish fans have the greatest hopes for the performance of Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel. The Polish woman started with a good 11th place in the alpine combined, but unfortunately she fell off the route during Wednesday’s super-G. On Thursday, men competed for medals in this competition, and there were no Polish representatives among the 56 competitors.
The sensational world champion in the super-G, he has never won the competition before
The clear favorite for gold was the leader of the World Cup, Marco Odermatt. The Swiss set out on the route with the seventh number and after a certain run he took the lead. He was quickly pushed from the first place by Alexis Pinturault, who started right after him. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde started with the number nine, who drove the upper part of the route very well and crossed the finish line with the best result. At that moment, everything seemed to indicate that it would be the Norwegian who would win the gold medal.
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However, he was followed by Canadian James Crawford. At the first intermediate time he had only the 10th result, and at the halfway point he was losing 34 hundredths of a second to the leading Norwegian. The Canadian did a great job in the second part of the route and systematically made up for the loss to the leader. Finally, he crossed the finish line with the result of 1:07:22, overtaking Kilde by 0.01 second and becoming a sensational world champion. None of the competitors starting later managed to beat him.
Crawford has been on the podium three times so far, but never on its highest step. Now he managed to do it at the most important event of the season. Finally Kilde took second place and Pinturault third, for whom it is the second medal after gold in super combined. Odermatt, who placed just behind the podium in the crown competition, can speak of great bad luck.
Source: Sport.PL

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