Switzerland's Von Allmen dominates last men's World Cup downhill before Olympics

World champion Franjo von Allmen dominated the last men's World Cup downhill before the Olympics on Sunday, giving troubled ski resort Crans-Montana a second Swiss victory of the weekend.

With the Olympic race coming up in six days, von Allmen won his second downhill of the season and fourth overall after beating Italian veteran and Bormio specialist Dominik Paris by 0.65 seconds.

"I really like the slope, it's really easy to ski but not easy to be fast," Von Allmen said. "It gives a lot of confidence and I'll try to show also my best skiing in Bormio. This was really important for me and I'm going with a good feeling."

Swiss skier von Allmen captures his 2nd World Cup downhill victory of the season

The Alpine skiing events of the Milan Cortina Games open with the men's downhill on Saturday on the storied Stelvio course, where the 36-year-old Paris has won a record six downhills between 2012 and 2021.

Racing in perfect sunny conditions under blue skies, Ryan Cochran-Siegle was 0.70 off the lead in third for the American's second podium of the Olympic season, after finishing runner-up to World Cup leader Marco Odermatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, in early December.

On Sunday, Cochran-Siegle was nine-hundredths faster than fourth-placed Odermatt, whose streak of eight downhills in which he finished first or second came to an end.

Cochran-Siegle was the only skier in the top 10 not from Switzerland or Italy. Some top contenders from Austria, including 2021 world champion Vincent Kriechmayr, sat out the race to have more time to prepare for the Olympics, where downhill training starts on Wednesday.

Cameron Alexander of North Vancouver, B.C., was the top Canadian in 11th place, 1.23 seconds back.

Canada's Alexander just misses