Ice cool Odermatt ready for date with Olympic downhill destiny

Sportsbeat Fri, 6 February 2026 at 10:12 pm UTC·3 min read By James Toney in Milan Roger Federer once said he had it easy when compared to Marco Odermatt. In ski-crazy Switzerland, Odermatt’s quest for a slice of Olympic history in Milano Cortina has become something that borders on a national obsession.Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement And success may just nudge Federer down a place on the plinth of legend if he lands skiing’s speed double here. Those famously neutral Swiss can be terribly one-eyed when it comes to their ski racing. There’s quite a bit of Federer in the calculating Odermatt, who insists the bigger the pressure, the more zen he...