Olympic champion Marco Odermatt has posted the fastest time in the opening run of a men’s World Cup giant slalom in a quest for his first points in the discipline this season. Odermatt started conservatively but had a more free-flowing final part of his run down the challenging Face de Bellevarde course to lead Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway by 0.
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Odermatt’s Swiss teammate Loic Meillard was 0.32 behind in third. All other racers had to make up more than half a second on Odermatt in the final run later Saturday. The three-time overall champion won the first nine of 10 giant slaloms races last season, but then failed to finish the final event in March and the first two races of the new season.With a win, Odermatt would match the career tally of Ted Ligety, the American GS specialist who won 24 World Cup races in the discipline between 2006 and 2015.
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