Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt started the World Cup super-G season with a Thanksgiving win at Copper Mountain on Thursday, while Aleksander Aamodt Kilde reduced fiancée Mikaela Shiffrin to tears by making his comeback after nearly two years out.

Odermatt has already won the opening giant slalom — at Sölden in the Austrian Alps last month — in what is an ominous start to the season by the world’s best men’s skier leading up to the Milan Cortina Olympic Games in February.

The Colorado course is hosting men’s World Cup races for just the second time, after 1975-76, and it was the stage for another strong run by Odermatt, who still needed to make up time in the final section to overhaul Vincent Kriechmayr and win by 0.08 seconds.

It denied Austria a clean sweep, with Raphael Haaser a furthe

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