Franjo von Allmen announces himself to the world with third Olympic gold

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BORMIO, Italy — The prevailing belief was that Marco Odermatt would dominate men’s alpine skiing in these Olympics. Actually, no. It wasn’t a belief. It was a stated fact. Odermatt, at 28, has morphed in recent years into one of the select stars who are spoken of with not only an air of invincibility, but as an inevitability. Roger Federer on skis. No one wondered if he would win gold at Milano Cortina 2026. Only, how many?

But it is his compatriot, the 24-year-old Franjo von Allmen who has become the leading man of these Games, his gold in the men’s super-G Wednesday his third in Italy, firmly putting him in Odermatt’s orbit.

Von Allmen was the first athlete to win a gold medal in Milan Cortina, winning the men’s downhill with a fearless run on the formidable Stelvio slope, and followed that up by standing on top of the podium in the men’s team combined Monday. And then came the super-G, Odermatt’s event, and he beat the field with by finishing in 1 minute 25.32 seconds. American Ryan Cochran-Siegle, his nearest challenger, was 0.13 seconds slower.

Odermatt, on the course where two of his World Cup super-G titles, in 2022 and 2023, had been won, had to settle for bronze.

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