Marco Odermatt opened a World Championships where he could be the defining skier by winning the super-G by the largest margin in any speed race at worlds in 34 years. Odermatt, the 27-year-old Swiss Lion King,

Marco Odermatt is in line to win the men's super-G at the Alpine skiing world championships after the top-ranked racers completed their runs.

Swiss favourite Marco Odermatt lived up to his billing with a dominant run to add men's super-G gold to his career collection at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Friday. Odermatt was a full second faster than Austrian silver medallist Raphael Haaser,