Thomas Tumler jumps into the breach for Marco Odermatt in the giant slalom in Copper Mountain: The man from Graubünden is in 3rd intermediate place in the first run. Odermatt is eliminated.
28.11.2025, 18:59
28.11.2025, 19:03
SDA
In the first World Cup giant slalom in Copper Mountain for 49 years, Odermatt slipped on the inside ski in a right-hand turn after setting the best intermediate times and missed a gate.
The proven Colorado specialist Tumler was only beaten by Stefan Brennsteiner and Zan Kranjec. The gap between the Beaver Creek winner from 2024 and the leader Brennsteiner is less than half a second, with the gap to Lucas Pinheiro Braathen in 4th place at 28 hundredths. Loïc Meillard is half a second behind Tumler in 7th place.
Odermatt's series of podium finishes in the giant slalom came to an end after four victories and two second and third places each. The dominator, who had been struggling with the flu in recent days, got off to a formidable start 24 hours after his victory in the super-G and was leading comfortably after the second of four intermediate times before landing in the snow.
"A classic inside ski mistake, typical for this snow here. Too bad, that never really happens to me in training," said Odermatt in the SRF interview. In view of the additional recovery time for the upcoming races in Beaver Creek next week, his anger was limited. Odermatt did not sustain any injuries.
The second run starts at 21:00 Swiss time.
