Marco Odermatt comes from behind to win his 12th straight GS race | Audi FIS Alpine World Cup 23-24

Just unbelievable

How can he be so close to falling and still pulling -0.58s after ... ? He's not human

Господи , уникален спортист с желязна подготовка и психика!!! 🎉

How can they get the ski to grip on sheet ice, even sharpened to 3°-4°?

Insane stuff...

- Out of control like Bode Miller on the backs of his skies mimicking the skating an ice turns the way Jean-Claude Killy used to do while wearing the old flexible leather boots...Marco Odermatt had to do this to gather the speed/time needed from shitty rutted and iced gates to get to where the snow is not iced & rutted while carrying enough winning speed gathered from where the "out of control" top part was needed.
- I understand what he did. I saw Killy do it at Cannon Mountain, in New Hampshire, for the world cup win way back when.
- He did skated on one ski on a sheet of 2 in thick ice on a curve that went uphill at at least a 50 degree angle and cut high to the inside when everyone else had to go way low toward the flatter part of the turn at a much slower speed with a much longer turn.
- He tried it the first two runs and failed. The third run he held the curve with his uphill ski while leaning back and lifting his down hill ski high and rotating it anti-clockwise to maintain balance and back to alignment as needed.
- No camera saw it. We were in high school and packed the trail with salt and snow so it held a cold and could be skied in the 70 weather that was coming. The Europeans couldn't believe the snow stayed and was so excellent. We in saw this from our perch in a 100 high white pine tree at the edge of that hard right turn that was a cut-off slope normally closed except for special racing events.
- We could see the top of the mountain start and the Zoomer tail finish.
- We had the best viewing position on the whole mountain that no one else could see...not even the film cameras.

🥹👽😆🙈🙈🙈

er chas haud

Magnifique!!!!🎿

Well, this wasn't really "comes from behind". He started his 2nd run 0.28 s ahead of the leader. That means he had a 0.28 s cushion. Sure, he fell behind in the middle of the run, but going faster on some parts and slower on others vs. your competitors is typical for ski racing.