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Daniel Hemetsberger was left bloodied and battered after misjudging his downhill run at Beijing 2022. The Austrian crashed into a gate within 15 seconds as he struggled to navigate a high-speed and undulating course on artificial snow.
James Woods missed out on the big air final in Beijing, whilst Austria’s Birk Ruud topped the qualification leaderboard. The 21-year-old Ruud secured his place in the big air final with outstanding scores of 94.50 and 93.25 in his first and third runs respectively.
The Swiss racer clocked 1min 42.69sec, finishing 0.10sec ahead of 41-year-old Frenchman Johan Clarey, while Austrian Matthias Mayer claimed a third Olympic medal in three Games with bronze. Clarey became the oldest alpine skiing medallist in Olympic history. Pre-race favourite Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway finished fifth, completing a miserable day for skiing's golden couple after his American girlfriend Mikaela Shiffrin slid out of the women's giant slalom earlier.
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The youngest member of the British team at the Beijing Olympics, Kirsty Muir, booked her place in the Big Air final as the 17-year-old qualified seventh.
El viento dio una tregua en Yanqing, permitiendo por fin la disputa del El recorrido llamado 'Roca', con un descenso vertical de 894 metros, fue un verdadero quebradero de cabeza para los participantes. Especialmente lo fueron las primeras puertas de un total de 40, que dejaron fuera de juego a favoritos como el italiano Innerhofer. Ante un descenso tan técnico, la experiencia jugó un factor clave, y Beat Feuz (Suiza, 34 años), Johan Clarey (Francia, 41 años) y Matthias Mayer (Austria, 31 años) conformaron un podio en el que la media de edad supera los 35 años.
YANQING, China : Switzerland's Beat Feuz won gold in the men's downhill at the Beijing Olympics on Monday with 41-year-old Frenchman Johan Clarey taking silver.
Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi held his nerve while his rivals lost theirs on Sunday, winning Olympic ski jumping gold on the men's normal hill in a wild and unpredictable Beijing Games final. Germany's World Cup leader Karl Geiger finished 15th in a disastrous performance, while hotly tipped Norwegians Halvor Egner Granerud and Marius Lindvik were also well out of contention. Kobayashi kept his cool to become the first Japanese ski jumper to win Olympic gold on foreign snow, pulling off jumps of 104.5 and 99.5 metres to finish first on 275.0 points. "This season I've been able to jump to the image I have in my mind," said the 25-year-old, who is second in the current World Cup standings and won this season's Four Hills competition.