{"id":258897,"date":"2026-01-26T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/258897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:24:11","slug":"marco-odermatt-river-radamus-and-more-slice-into-schladming-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/258897\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Odermatt, River Radamus and more slice into Schladming for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it time for a little R&R?<\/p>\n

No, not\u00a0that kind of R&R. Resting and relaxing in the world of Alpine comes after the Winter Olympics and after March for that matter (when the World Cup season concludes).\u00a0<\/p>\n

River Radamus and\u00a0Ryder Sarchett, aka River and Ryder, aka R&R, were the two American technical specialists selected to represent Team USA in Milan Cortina. First, they’ll compete in Schladming.<\/p>\n

Radamus boasts an Olympic pedigree, placing fourth in two events \u2014 including the giant slalom \u2014 at the Beijing Games in 2022. In his last four GS races this Cup season, the 27-year-old hasn\u2019t finished worse than 7th. He\u2019s finding consistency at the right time, which bodes well for an athlete with self-described<\/a> \u201cunfinished business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarchett, by contrast, possesses no Olympic experience and has just nine Cup starts to his name. His best result came in December in Val D\u2019lsere, leap-frogging to 10th while wearing bib No. 52.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old spent<\/a> a lot of time as a kid free skiing, which often involved landing jumps and jibbing. He believes that enabled him to develop creativity, fluidity and instinctiveness, all traits that are important for effectively adapting to changing race conditions. In Schladming, the phenomenon pretty much is a given due to the limited visibility of a nighttime race and the dropping temperatures that affect the snow\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n

The 2024 junior world champion in GS could use a standout result as a confidence booster before his first Winter Games, and Schladming may be the ideal match for Sarchett\u2019s style.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it time for a little R&R? No, not\u00a0that kind of R&R. Resting and relaxing in the world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[136700,136703,136707,136708,85,46,136704,136709,136706,136705,136701,136710,136711,43,136702,136699,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-258897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alpine-skiing","9":"tag-atle-lie-mcgrath","10":"tag-clement-noel","11":"tag-henrik-kristoffersen","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-linus-strasser","15":"tag-loic-meillard","16":"tag-lucas-pinheiro-braathen","17":"tag-manuel-feller","18":"tag-marco-odermatt","19":"tag-mens-giant-slalom","20":"tag-mens-slalom","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-river-radamus","23":"tag-road-to-the-olympics","24":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}