After taking second in Saturday’s big slalom World Cup race in Hafjell, Norway, Swiss World Cup skier Marco Odermatt has claimed his fourth consecutive general and big slalom Crystal Globes.Crystal Globes are awarded to the skiers who rank the most effective in every self-discipline all through a racing season. An extra prize is awarded to the highest-ranking general skier.Swiss skiers swept the Hafjell podium as Odermatt’s countrymen Loic Meillard and Thomas Tumler completed first and third, respectively. Whereas the World Cup season isn’t over but—a males’s slalom occasion in Hafjell is scheduled for Sunday, and the female and male racers will convene in Solar Valley, Idaho, for finals within the coming days—Odermatt now ranks too excessive to be surpassed by another racers within the general and big slalom rankings.
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He additionally leads downhill and locked down the super-g title final week. Odermatt is not ranked in slalom, as he would not compete within the self-discipline.Need to sustain with the most effective tales and pictures in snowboarding? Subscribe to the brand new Powder To The Folks e-newsletter for weekly updates.“To push your self over and over and over in an extended season could be very powerful, so I’m completely satisfied that this very profitable Norway journey for me is over and now only a cool closing week in Solar Valley,” Odermatt mentioned, in line with NBC Sports activities.On Saturday, Norwegian skier Henrik Kristoffersen had a shot at difficult Odermatt’s general title bid. However Kristoffersen, after touchdown in sixteenth, now mathematically can not take Odermatt’s title with solely 5 races left within the season. Nonetheless, Kristoffersen stays the general slalom chief and is within the working for a slalom Crystal Globe.In pocketing the general title, Odermatt now occupies a rarefied place as his trophy case brims with Crystal Globes. Solely two males have received extra general World Cup titles than him—Marcel Hirscher with eight and Marc Girardelli with 5.All through his profession, Odermatt has additionally claimed 45 World Cup wins. Simply 5 males have stood atop the World Cup podium greater than him. Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark tops that record with 86 victories, whereas the American Mikaela Shiffrin—who has received 100 World Cup races—is the winningest alpine racer of all time throughout each genders.On March 22, the primary race of Solar Valley’s exhibiting will start with a males’s and ladies’s downhill. The sequence of races marks the primary time in eight years that World Cup finals have been held on American soil.
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