Von-Allmen continues his incredible Games by adding Super G gold to his collection

Franjo von Allmen (SUI) extended his 100% golden record at these Games as he made it three Olympic titles in six days after another brilliant run on the Stelvio.

The Swiss racer added Super G to his Downhill and Team Combined gold medals in a personal Games that even he couldn’t have anticipated going so perfectly. In the process, he has become only the third male skier to win three Olympic titles at a Games, and the first to do so since 1968.

Beijing 2022 silver medallist Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA) kept the same spot on the podium as he did then, silver ahead of Marco Odermatt (SUI) who collected his second medal of these Games.

A THREE-TIME Olympic Champion

So, how did your first Games go? For Franjo von Allmen, it's the greatest possible. In fact, it's one of the greatest Games debuts of all-time in any sport.

Von-Allmen continued his historic run with a third title in the Super G, a result he - just like everybody else - is struggling to put into words.

"It's crazy" von Allmen continued. "I would have been happy with one gold medal. In the Combined I didn't show my best performance but slalom was great (from Tanguy Nef). I really have no words for it."

Once again, it's a result that has taken von Allmen himself by surprise. His domination on the Stelvio has come as the story of these Games, but ahead of today, did he think it was possible to continue this? "No, absolutely not, I was sure I this wasn't enough for gold" is his honest admission. "Maybe today I had a little bit of luck with the slope, with the snow, with the early bit. Maybe it was a little bit slower after me."

Whether it got slower or not won't be remembered by the history books though. Franjo von Allmen was already a star ahead of this past week. Now he's a global superstar. And as for the celebration, will it be a good one? "I hope so, yeah!"

With three Olympic titles to his name, he's truly earned it.

How it happened

A much-anticipated Super G got underway with Nils Allegre (FRA), a 2024 World Cup stage winner from Garmish-Partenkirchen, who set 1:25.63 to give the other 41 racers something to keep in mind. One of those to come soon after was Cochran-Siegle (USA), the Beijing 2022 silver medallist 0.18s quicker than the Frenchman in pursuit of the podium again.

But the story of the men’s competition so far has been written by Switzerland. With two titles and a silver already, they entered this one with ambitions of extending their fine beginning. Of those two titles, von Allmen (SUI) had both, and nobody could look past him in advance of a potential golden treble. He certainly lived up to the hype again, bettering Cochran-Siegle’s run by 0.13s ahead of a big-hitting chasing pack following him out.

Chasing the leader

Giovanni Franzoni (ITA) has been right on the heels of von Allmen so far these Games, but the Italian couldn’t keep the pace this run. He lost more than half a second in the second part of his run, out of medal contention in a blow to the host team. But despite a tough downhill, Marco Odermatt (SUI) was always the name to look out for. The World Cup leader and current World champion has a trio of top step finishes from this campaign, but von Allmen has proved to fair just that bit better at these Games so far, and it was the same story here. Odermatt had to settle into the bronze spot with his time of 1:25.60, von Allmen able to breathe a little easier in the leader’s seat.

On the Italian, Franzoni’s miss on the podium was a difficult moment. Dominik Paris (ITA) crashing out only added to it. Paris lost his right ski very early to compound the hosts’ woes in this final, his final race of these Games. But with a bronze in the downhill, he will have at least have fond memories of a Milano-Cortina experience that delivered his first Olympic medal. "I leave with a medal, it's a big dream come true" the Italian told the media. "I'm so happy that I achieved this result, finally. It was nice to have it here at home. I can go back really peaceful."

Austria came into this one with hopes of medals too. Vincent Kriechmayr, Stefan Babinsky and Raphael Haaser (AUT) are all sat in the top four of the World Cup standings, with Marco Schwarz (AUT) not much further back. None could demonstrate their best skiing though, Haaser closest but still 0.57s back and out of a top three that wasn’t to be disturbed from the tenth racer on.

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Maintaining the position

Two Games, two silver medals. Ryan Cochran-Siegle refuses to be displaced from the Super G podium, as he replicated his Beijing 2022 result this time around.

"I was really happy with my ski today" the now two-time Olympic medallist said. "I felt like I went out there, skied with a lot of heart and just the focus that I've been doing consistently from top to bottom. It's a great place to do it, I feel like I really embraced the slope and the way the snow was and the course set. But the meaning? It hasn't set in. I did not expect this."

Taking to the slopes from bib three, it was a long wait to see the rest of the racers try to displace him. Only one could. "Watching Franjo's run, I thought maybe if I beat him I could be on the podium but he came down winning. So, I thought, 'No gold for me, but that's OK'. And then it held surprisingly, somehow." 

It wasn't the ideal preparation for the American either, having struggled with illness over these past few days. But in a way, that helped him remove the pressure from himself ahead of competition.

"I spent a lot of time in bed the last few days. Yesterday I got a little frustrated, I didn't feel I was where I wanted to be and just tried to do what I could do to give myself the opportunity today. I went through warm ups, kind of felt more like myself today and it just made me think about the skiing itself. And it took the pressure off me as well."

Marco gets another podium

World Cup leader Marco Odermatt has found himself back on the Olympic podium, bronze this time after a team combined silver two days earlier. And while he’s pleased with another medal, there’s a tinge of regret at a couple of parts of his race that ruled out the gold. “I won bronze and you have to be happy if you win an Olympic medal for sure. But also I wanted a little bit more today, I wanted the gold medal."

In a way, even the podium surprised Odermatt a little, out in tenth and going over the line in third at the time. But it was a position his time maintained. "I think it was a good run, maybe on the bottom I made a little mistakes – this is for sure when I lost the gold medal. When you get bib number ten, to get third at the finish is never usually enough for a podium. But the weather was really strange today, the slope got slower and slower so the guys behind me didn’t have the chance to ski much faster."

Still to come at the Games

It’s five finals down, five to go for our alpine racers at the Milano Cortina Olympic Games. Tomorrow (12 February) it’s the turn of the women’s Super G, before Friday marks our first non-competition day since the opening of the Games.

This weekend (14/15) it’s all attention on the Giant Slalom, with the 16^th and 18^th seeing the Slalom in men’s and women’s competition.

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