(Reuters) -Switzerland’s four-time overall World Cup champion Marco Odermatt says he still has room for improvement in the speed disciplines as he prepares to start a new season that will culminate at next year’s Winter Olympics.

Odermatt, who won giant slalom gold at the 2022 Games in Beijing, is regarded as one of the greatest all-round skiers of his generation and will be a multiple medal contender in Milan Cortina in February.

His season begins next week in Solden, Austria with a giant slalom, his specialist event but one in which he concedes he has sacrificed a little in order to improve in downhill and super-G.

“As an all-rounder, I’ve probably reached my peak,” he told Skiracing.com. “Last winter, I became stronger in downhill—especially in long gliding turns like you see in Gröd

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