Overshadowed by another serious fall, Norwegian ski racer Fredrik Möller caused the second surprise within 24 hours at the World Cup in Bormio, Italy.
The day after the Swiss Alexis Monney’s victory in the downhill, the 24-year-old from Oppdal also won his first race in the Super-G – he had not even been on the podium before, but had already made people sit up and take notice with two fourth places this season .
After the Swiss Gino Caviezel with starting number one had a serious fall and had to be transported away by helicopter, Möller, as the fourth starter, set a time that none of the favorites could match. His lead over former world champion Vincent Kriechmayr from Austria was 0.20 seconds, and 0.24 seconds separated him from Monney, who was surprisingly strong again in third place. Superstar Marco Odermatt from Switzerland came fifth, as in the downhill.
Two days after the serious fall of the Frenchman Cyprien Sarrazin, who has now woken up from an artificial coma after an operation for a cerebral hemorrhage, Caviezel made a rather unusual mistake in a super-G: the 33-year-old veteran threaded his way into a directional gate.
Jocher had to miss the start
He fell down the San Pietro jump and then complained of pain in his shoulder and knee. “Not nice pictures,” said Odermatt on “ZDF”.
Simon Jocher had to miss out on starting the last race of the year. The man from Garmisch suffered a severe bruise to his right heel bone during the descent. It remained unclear how long the 28-year-old, who finished a respectable 13th place in the race, would be out for. DSV team doctor Christoph Kruis could not rule out a fracture.