All eyes on Marco Odermatt: The Swiss, who has already won four World Cup giant slaloms and Olympic gold, will start the second and decisive round from seventh place (from 12.30 p.m. in the live stream on sportschau.de). According to the current status, this placement would be enough for the 24-year-old to secure the small crystal ball early.
“Not a good run for him”analyzed sports show expert Felix Neureuther and addressed the fact that Odermatt never found the ideal line in the first run and could not pick up as much speed as one is used to from him.
Alexis Pinturault is back
This was done better by someone who never found his form this winter. And so, somewhat surprisingly, Alexis Pinturault leads in Kranjiska Gora. The Frenchman, who was able to win the overall World Cup last year, showed a very concentrated run in which he showed all his qualities. “Every swing was spot on”according to Neureuther.
Pinturault leads just ahead of the Norwegian Lucas Braathen (+0.01 seconds), who raced to second place with the start number 16, and the local hero Zan Kranjec from Slovenia (+0.19).