Sports Writing, 17 Feb. The Swiss Marco Odermatt made good predictions and became this Friday giant world champion by winning the Alpine Skiing World Championships in Courchevel and Méribel (France), disputed in the first of the two aforementioned resorts, in which his compatriot Loic Meillard took silver and Austrian Marco Schwarz took bronze.
Odermatt, 25, an Olympic gold medalist in the discipline last year at the Beijing Games and who won the downhill on Sunday, captured his second gold metal in these World Cups by covering both runs in the long , technical, tough and demanding L’Eclipse track in Courchevel -beginning at an altitude of 1730 meters and a drop of 450- in a winning time of two minutes, 34 seconds and eight hundredths, ie 32 less than Meillard; and with a 40 advantage over Schwarz, leader after the first set – ahead of the new champion – and who settled for bronze.