{"id":21648,"date":"2026-02-28T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21648\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:21:08","slug":"marco-odermatt-triumphs-in-garmisch-partenkirchen-a-swiss-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21648\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Odermatt Triumphs in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: A Swiss Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Swiss skier Marco Odermatt clinched victory in the first men&#8217;s World Cup Alpine skiing downhill event following the Milano Cortina Olympics, achieving a Swiss podium sweep at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday. Despite missing out on gold during the games, Odermatt returned to form with a commanding performance.<\/p>\n<p>The competition saw Alexis Monney finish a close second, just 0.04 seconds behind Odermatt, and Stefan Rogentin securing third place. Notably, triple gold medalist Franjo von Allmen finished sixth, trailing Austria&#8217;s Vincent Kriechmayr and Italy&#8217;s Giovanni Franzoni.<\/p>\n<p>Odermatt, expressing joy in skiing under warm conditions, emphasized the challenge of maintaining race tension. His victory expands his lead in the downhill standings to 175 points over Von Allmen, with a significant 687-point lead in the overall World Cup. Competitors will tackle a super-G next.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Swiss skier Marco Odermatt clinched victory in the first men&#8217;s World Cup Alpine skiing downhill event following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14200,1822,14197,8292,14199,1820,14202,14201,41,17,14198,13703],"class_list":{"0":"post-21648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-alexis-monney","9":"tag-alpine-skiing","10":"tag-downhill","11":"tag-franjo-von-allmen","12":"tag-garmisch-partenkirchen","13":"tag-marco-odermatt","14":"tag-skiing-competition","15":"tag-stefan-rogentin","16":"tag-swiss","17":"tag-switzerland","18":"tag-vincent-kriechmayr","19":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}