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The U.S. Ski Team had a successful race weekend at the World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. River Radamus and Ryan Cochran-Siegle finished in the top 10 and three further athletes, Sam Morse, Bryce Bennett, and Jared Goldberg, finished in the top 30.
The race weekend on the Kandahar course consisted of two Super-G races. Saturday’s Super-G was comparably slow due to the warm weather. Course workers had to salt the run to make it race-ready, and the heavy fog was making the start of the race course hard to see. The race course in Garmisch is not particulary steep or long, “you definitely need to push here,” Cochran-Siegle explained. Cochran-Siegle in bib no. 4 skied into what was ultimately 10th place for the 31-year-old ski racer.
Victory on Saturday went to France’s Nils Allegre, while second place went to Guglielmo Bosca from Italy. Third place went to Loic Meillard from Switzerland while his teammate Marco Odermatt, a favorite for the race, missed out on the podium by 0.03 seconds. It marks Allegre’s first World Cup win and Bosca’s first-ever World Cup podium.
River Radamus finished Saturday in 17th place and had a stellar day on Sunday when he came back to finish in eighth place — a career-best in Super-G for the 25-year-old American. “Super-G has been a process for me this year and I am happy with today,” said Radamus after the race. Colder weather overnight meant a faster course on Sunday and another opportunity for everyone on the Kandahar course, including teammate Cochran-Siegle, who brought a repeat performance with another 10th place. “The surface changed a lot today but I think today I was driving strong and had a good technical foundation all the way through,” said Cochran-Siegle.
Sunday’s Super-G saw favorite Marco Odermatt back on the big step of the podium, relegating Austria’s Raphael Haaser to second place. 22-year-old Franjo von Allmen from Switzerland, who made his debut on the World Cup circuit last March, finished in third place — his first-ever career World Cup podium.
The speed circuit is now entering a longer-than-anticipated break due to the cancellation of the races at Chamonix, France, this weekend. The next speed races will be one Super-G and one Downhill race at Kvitfjell, Norway, on February 17 and 18. The World Cup finals will be in Saalbach Hinterglemm, Austria, from March 16-24, 2024.
