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YANQING, China : Austria's Matthias Mayer made history on Tuesday at the Beijing Games by winning an Alpine skiing gold medal at three straight Olympics, leaving his awe-struck rivals almost speechless.
Austria's Matthias Mayer defended his Olympic super-G title, taking the gold medal with a time of 1:19.94 at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre. America's Ryan Cochran-Siegle snatched silver, finishing 0.04 seconds behind Mayer (1:19.98), to win his first Olympic medal in only his second Games. Ad/> Hot pre-race favourite Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who came 13th in the super-G in Sochi and Pyeongchang, won his first ever Olympic medal as he finished in a time of 1:20.36 to take bronze.
The downhill at the Winter Olympics has been moved back by an hour owing to high winds. The event was due to start at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre at 03:00 but has now been moved to 04:00. The USA’s Bryce Bennett will be first out of the gate with Mattias Mayer, Beat Feuz, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Dominik Paris and Marco Odermatt also in action.
The Winter Olympics began in earnest on Saturday, with the first full day of action in Beijing.
YANQING, China :Switzerland's Marco Odermatt hit out at Olympic ski organisers after Saturday's downhill training was cancelled with just three runners having completed the course.
The world's top skiers were full of praise for the Beijing downhill course as athletes finally took to the piste. The course in Yanqing is created entirely out of artificial snow and is yet to host a World Cup race or test event of any kind. Ad/> But on Thursday riders were able to get a taste of the run ahead of Sunday's opening race.
When the stars of Alpine skiing such as American Mikaela Shiffrin arrive in China's Yanquing mountain area for the Winter Olympics there will be one question on their minds - "What kind of course will we be competing on?"
When the stars of Alpine skiing such as American Mikaela Shiffrin arrive in China's Yanquing mountain area for the Winter Olympics there will be one question on their minds - 'What kind of course will we be competing on?'