Italian ski star Dominik Paris shines in tight World Cup super-G for second win in three days

Paris was the one racer to interrupt clear in a super-G of tight margins, on a course shortened by fog on the mountain, and added to his downhill victory Friday.

Take Paris out of Sunday’s race and the highest 25 all would have been inside one second of James Crawford, the 2023 world champion from Canada.

Paris was there, nonetheless, because the standout racer 0.38 sooner than Crawford and 0.47 away from third-placed Miha Hrobat. The outcome was unofficial with low-ranked skiers nonetheless racing.

Marco Odermatt positioned fourth although his season-long super-G title was confirmed in midweek when his closest challenger, Paris’s teammate Mattia Casse, was injured crashing in a coaching run for the downhill.

Paris, the German-speaking Italian with the French-sounding household title, is most at residence on the Norwegian slope that staged the 1994 Olympics races.

He now has six of his 24 profession World Cup wins at Kvitfjell, the place he additionally accomplished a weekend double in downhill and super-G in 2019, and received a downhill in March 2022.

That had been a profession season for Paris six years in the past. He received a career-best seven World Cup races, plus his solely gold medal — in super-G on the 2019 worlds — and his solely World Cup crystal trophy, for the season-long super-G title. That success all got here after spending the summer time recording an album as a singer in a heavy metallic band, Rise of Voltage.

Odermatt earned 50 race factors Sunday and has an unbeatable lead of 210 within the super-G standings earlier than the final race March 23 at Solar Valley, Idaho. It’s his third straight super-G title.

The Swiss celebrity’s fourth straight general World Cup title is also assured with a 570-point lead over Henrik Kristoffersen and simply six races left. Although 600 factors could be received, Kristoffersen doesn’t race in downhill or super-G.

Kristoffersen will probably be favored to select up factors subsequent weekend when the lads’s World Cup circuit stays in Norway for an enormous slalom and slalom at close by Hafjell.

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