COPPER MOUNTAIN, United States :Switzerland’s four-times overall champion Marco Odermatt opened his Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G campaign with an emphatic win at Copper Mountain on Thursday as he resumed his pursuit of a fourth straight crystal globe in the discipline.

Regarded as one of the greatest all-round skiers of his generation, and a multiple-medal contender for February’s Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, Odermatt delivered a composed run in cloudy conditions to beat Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr — third in last season’s Super-G standings — by 0.08 seconds.

The victory was the Swiss's 47th on the World Cup circuit and 90th podium, following his triumph in the Giant Slalom season opener in Soelden, Austria, last month.

It also came as the circuit made its first men's World Cup stop

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