Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt navigates fog to post wire-to-wire victory on home snow

Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt is unstoppable in giant slaloms and proved it again Saturday racing through fog at his home World Cup classic.

Odermatt dominated in a wire-to-wire win at Adelboden to join skiing greats Ingemar Stenmark and Hermann Maier by winning in three straight years on the storied Chuenisbärgli course that is a rolling cow pasture in summer.

He celebrated with a body-surfing leap onto the finish-area safety barrier, sliding across the padded fence on his back.

Odermatt added to his huge 1.04-second lead from the first run to finish in one minute 54.06 seconds, 1.26 ahead of Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. Filip Zubcic was third of 30 finishers, trailing Odermatt (1:55.83) by 1.77.

Kilde already was assured of a career-best result in giant slalom as he smiled and laughed in the finish area watching Odermatt's peerless run and exuberant celebration.

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Odermatt sealed victory in worsening visibility yet his second-run time was beaten only by River Radamus of the United States who finished fourth after placing 20th in the first run.

"It was amazing," Odermatt said. "It was obviously not an easy nice race today."

The men's World Cup continues on Sunday with the slalom event. Live streaming of the second run begins on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app, and CBC Gem beginning at 7:30 a.m. ET.

Toronto's Justin Alkier (1:00.52) was among five Canadians who didn't qualify for the final run. Liam Wallace (59.00) of Banff, Alta., Toronto's Jack Crawford (59.12), Calgary's Erik Read (59.41) and Asher Jordan (59.48) of North Vancouver, B.C., were the others.

Fog sitting across the top of the Chuenisbärgli hill forced organizers to shorten a