Aleksander Aamodt Kilde wins first Wengen downhill; American clinches Olympic spot

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WENGEN, Switzerland — The rivalry between Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Marco Odermatt emerged once more Friday in a World Cup downhill.

Kilde edged Odermatt by 0.19 seconds to win at some point after his Swiss good friend had received a super-G in one other duel on the storied Lauberhorn hill.

Beat Feuz was third Friday, 0.30 behind the Norwegian winner, whereas looking for a document fourth win in his house nation’s traditional race.

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Kilde’s second downhill win of the season earned him 100 factors and lifted him to the highest of the season-long self-discipline standings. Nonetheless, the 2020 general World Cup champion barely reduce the hole on Odermatt within the general standings.

Odermatt’s relentlessly constant outcomes have constructed an general lead of almost 400 factors together with his six wins in comparison with Kilde’s 5 from 19 occasions.

A runner-up end in Odermatt’s first-ever downhill in Wengen was spectacular for being quicker than Feuz, his favored teammate and a four-time defending World Cup downhill champion.

The hard-packed snow and shiny sunshine on a chilly day ensured quick racing with Bryce Bennett hitting a high pace above 93 mph in his seventh-place run, 0.95 behind.

The American’s peak pace got here on the Hanneggschuss straight the place in 2013 the World Cup document of 100.6 mph was set by Johan Clarey. Now 41, the Frenchman positioned 14th on Friday.

One other downhill on the Lauberhorn will likely be raced Saturday.

Bennett, the highest American downhiller, grew to become the second U.S. male Alpine skier to clinch an Olympic spot because of a earlier World Cup downhill win on Dec. 18.

Bennett, a 29-year-old ranked ninth on this planet within the downhill, goes to his second Olympics after ending sixteenth and seventeenth within the downhill and mixed in 2018.

Travis Ganong beforehand clinched an Olympic spot through super-G outcomes. Ryan Cochran-Siegle and River Radamus are more likely to sew up their spots later this weekend earlier than the complete workforce is called subsequent week.

The U.S. presently has six males’s quota spots and 9 girls’s quota spots and will acquire extra. Mikaela Shiffrin, Breezy Johnson, Paula Moltzan and Nina O’Brien clinched spots on the ladies’s workforce.

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