Marko Odermat won nine out of 10 giant slalom races for the World Cup last season, and today he celebrated the first of this season in French Val d'Isere. The brilliant Swiss was left without points in Zelden and Beaver Creek, and today he made a strong start and took the lead in the first race.
This was significant due to poor visibility and unfavorable weather conditions in the second run and he still managed to keep eight hundredths ahead of the Austrian Patrik Forstein.
He was only 24 in the first race, but he had better conditions in the second series than his competitors.
Austrian Stefan Brensteiner was third, 12 hundredths of a second behind the winner.
The Norwegian Henrik Kristofersen was fifth with 24 hundredths and the Slovenian Žak Kranjec eighth with 45 hundredths worse than the winner.
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