Swiss racer<\/a> joined elite ski-racing company by winning the men\u2019s super-G on Wednesday for his third Olympic gold medal of the Milan Cortina Games.<\/p>\nVon Allmen became the third men\u2019s Alpine ski racer to win three events at one Winter Olympics. The other two are legends of the sport, Jean-Claude Killy of France, who won three at the 1968 Grenoble Games, and Austrian Anton \u201cToni\u201d Sailer, a three-time winner at the 1956 Winter Games in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo, Italy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sounds stupid, but I\u2019m not really interested in what\u2019s on the paper,\u201d von Allmen said of equaling records. \u201cFor me, I\u2019m really trying to enjoy the Olympics here, and maybe in a few years it will be important for me. For now, it isn\u2019t really.\u201d<\/p>\n
Von Allmen, the seventh racer on the course, found a fast line on snow growing softer and softer in the warming weather to finish in a time of 1 minute, 25.32 seconds. He beat American Ryan Cochran-Siegle by 0.13 seconds, while von Allmen\u2019s teammate, Marco Odermatt, captured bronze.<\/p>\n
\u201cI maybe had a little bit of luck with the bib (number) and the snow,\u201d said von Allmen, who became the first men\u2019s racer from ski-crazed Switzerland to win the Olympic super-G. <\/p>\n
Regardless of conditions, he\u2019s racing at a different level in Bormio. He won the downhill on Saturday and paired with Tanguy Nef to win the inaugural team combined event Monday. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re on, you\u2019re on,\u201d Cochran-Siegle said. \u201cHe did an awesome job.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s another Olympic medal for the 33-year-old Cochran-Siegle, who also earned silver in the super-G at the 2022 Beijing Games. It\u2019s also another medal for his family as his mom, Barbara, captured gold in the slalom at the 1972 Sapporo Games. She happened to be in the crowd on Wednesday, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cMust be something in the water back home in Vermont,\u201d Cochran-Siegle cracked. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy that we\u2019re sitting here with another successful Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cochran-Siegle overcame a stomach bug on his way to silver, one that hit him hard before the downhill race when he finished 18th. He said he threw up in the gondola and again two hours before Saturday\u2019s start.<\/p>\n
He felt back to health for the super-G.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday was about really trying to trust my skiing,\u201d Cochran-Siegle said. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to put down a run top-to-bottom where I felt like I was really pushing in the right way.\u201d <\/p>\n
Odermatt, a four-time overall World Cup champion, added bronze to his silver in the team event. He was fourth in the downhill over the weekend.<\/p>\n
After finishing as the 10th racer on the super-G course, Odermatt bent down and began shaking his head. He wasn\u2019t confident his time would hold up. Little did he realize the snow conditions would make it tough for anyone to take his bronze.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe slope got slower and slower, so the guys behind didn\u2019t really have the chance to ski much faster,\u201d Odermatt said. \u201cSo that was on my side.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Italian duo of Giovanni Franzoni and Dominik Paris \u2014 the silver and bronze downhill medalists \u2014 couldn\u2019t knock Odermatt off the podium. Franzoni took sixth while Paris was a \u201cdid not finish\u201d after equipment issues. He was in the middle of a fast run when his right ski popped off its binding. He fell to the snow and slid to a stop before hiking back up to retrieve his ski. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit heavy for me to accept that, but what do you do?\u201d Paris said.<\/p>\n
Odermatt is the reigning Olympic champion in the next event on the men\u2019s program, the giant slalom. Any chance von Allmen lobbies to compete in the GS, to go for a fourth Olympic gold in Bormio?<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d said von Allmen, who has only raced one World Cup GS race and didn\u2019t finish. \u201cI will let the guys do (the GS) which can ski in GS.\u201d<\/p>\n
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