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Arif Khan, finished 45th in the giant slalom event on Sunday. The 31-year-old from Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir clocked a combined time of 2 minute 47.24 seconds from two races in difficult weather conditions at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre. Khan, who was making his Winter Olympics debut, ended at 53rd in Race 1 with a time of 1:22.35 out of the 54 competitors who could finish it.
Aleksander Adrienko of the ROC had a huge collision after he straddled and fell through a gate during the giant slalom at the Beijing 2022 Olympics. Marco Odermatt fulfilled his billing as a favourite for gold in the event as he coped best with the extremely challenging conditions to win the title, but there were an unfortunate host of big crashes. Ad/> Heavy snow and poor visibility caused havoc, with several contenders for the medals struggling to deal with the blizzard, and Adrienko was one such hapless participant who suffered at the hands of the brutal weather.
A heavy blizzard wreaked havoc at the Winter Olympics on Sunday and delayed the start of the second run in the men’s giant slalom, but there was a more humorous stoppage during the opening run of the event. Hong Kong’s Hau Tsuen Adrian Yung – one of 35 DNFs during Race 1 – was thankfully unhurt after stumbling on his way down the ‘Ice River’, but race referee Markus Waldner and assistant Emmanuel Couder still had to halt proceedings due to the mysterious case of a missing ski.
YANQING, China: Switzerland's Marco Odermatt finally lived up to expectations by holding his nerve in snow and fog to win gold in the men's Olympic giant slalom on Sunday (Feb 13).
Already a superstar in his own country with his face plastered over advertising everywhere you look, Marco Odermatt is now set for megastar status after winning the men's giant slalom event at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre on Sunday (13 February) in a combined time of 2:09.35 from the two runs. Lara Gut-Behrami won the same discipline for Switzerland in the women's event on Friday (11 December) with Beat Feuz also winning the men's downhill to give Switzerland three gold medals in Alpine skiing so far at Beijing 2022.
YANQING, China : Switzerland's Marco Odermatt won the gold medal in the men's giant slalom on Sunday with a combined time of 2:09:35.
Marco Odermatt fulfilled his billing as favourite for giant slalom gold at the Winter Olympics as he shrugged off extremely challenging conditions to win the title in Beijing. Heavy snow and poor visibility caused havoc, with several contenders for the medals struggling to deal with the weather, but the Swiss sensation kept his cool to win ahead of Slovenia's Zan Kranjec and Mathieu Faivre of France.
There were 35 DNFs in the first run of the men’s giant slalom, but Jamaica’s first-ever alpine skier at an Olympic Games was not among them. “Fricking hell, that was hard,” declared DJ-turned-skier Benjamin Alexander, who finished the ‘Ice River’ course in 1:37.94, more than 30 seconds behind leader and pre-event favourite Marco Odermatt.