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Second Courchevel Super-G Canceled as Weather Seals Globe for Odermatt

Unsafe conditions from heavy snow and fog shut down the weekend’s speed races in Courchevel, effectively locking the Super-G title for Marco Odermatt.

Overview

  • The International Ski Federation canceled Sunday’s men’s Super-G at Courchevel after also scrubbing Saturday’s race, citing heavy overnight snowfall, fog and insufficient safety conditions.
  • With both Courchevel Super-Gs off the calendar, Marco Odermatt secures the discipline’s small globe, holding a 158-point lead over Vincent Kriechmayr that cannot be overturned next week.
  • Organizers had already reshuffled the program in anticipation of poor weather, moving the downhill to Friday on the Éclipse piste, a race won by Odermatt.
  • The Courchevel Super-Gs had been added to replace a fog-canceled event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and were the final World Cup stop before the season finals in Norway.
  • FIS communicated the cancellations on Telegram, and the lost races remove key points opportunities ahead of the finals scheduled for March 21–25 in Kvitfjell.