Ski World Championships, Paris regrets: "I started badly, but I'm there on the way down"

Saalbach, 7 February 2025 – First race without medals for Italy at the Alpine Skiing World Championships currently taking place in Saalbach, Austria. Dominik Paris he failed to get on the podium in the super G won and dominated by Marco Odermatt about Raphael Haaser and Adrian Smiseth Sejersted, due to a first part of the race not up to par, where he left 75 hundredths in the second sector alone. If you consider that he finished in seventh position at 1”31 from Odermatt, but only 16 hundredths from the podium, you understand how decisive that area was, misinterpreted by Domme, for the purpose of a medal. Too bad, but the South Tyrolean is there and for the downhill he is counting on being able to play for something important.

Paris: “Bad start, but downhill…”

Beat Odermatt, as we saw, it would have been impossible. Perfection exists and it is the Swiss who ran an exceptional super g, increasing his advantage in the final part, where he dug an important gap and where Paris, all in all, had kept the pace. The Italian did well in the central part, even faster than Odermatt, but lost more than half of his delay only in the second sector. There, he left the medal on the plate: "I knew I had to push hard but I wasn't able to start very well, I lost a lot at the top - his words to the federal channels - In the central part it didn't go badly, then in all honesty I don't understand how Odermatt managed to go so fast". For Paris the second opportunity comes on Sunday, with the much-loved downhill. Domme comes to us from a good placing in Wengen and her confidence grows: "We're there in the downhill, my confidence grows, especially after a race like this. In tomorrow's race I'll try to fix some more details and then give my all on Sunday", the charge of Paris. There is also a bit of regret for Giovanni FranzoniThe Italian, fourth in the World Cup at Beaver Creek, had started well with two excellent intermediates, but he took the wrong line before a hump and missed a gate. Franzoni he had started with big ambitions and the disappointment is evident: "Today I believed in it. I felt good and I risked the lines a bit, then I made a stupid mistake - his comment - I started to aim for something big and nothing came. I'm really sorry, but I'll swallow this bitter pill and think about the next ones". Now the downhills. Saturday at 11.30:XNUMX the women's one with Goggia, Brignone, Delago and one between Pirovano and Curtoni, Sunday the men's one with Paris, Casse, Schieder and one between Franzoni, Bosca and Innerhofer. Double live broadcast on Rai channels and Eurosport channels. Read also - Ski World Championships, Odermatt gold in super g. Settimo Paris