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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.
The first run of the men’s giant slalom persisted despite treacherous conditions at the Winter Olympics. Visibility was low, but with regulations stating that skiers must be able to see three gates ahead of them, the race went ahead as planned despite the freeski slopestyle qualifying being postponed.
Luca De Aliprandini and Mathieu Faivre were among the skiers complaining about visibility after treacherous conditions greeted the start of the men’s giant slalom at the Winter Olympics. There was a delay to the women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying, but the giant slalom race was given the all-clear despite a heavy blizzard at the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre.
YANQING, China : Sunday's men's giant slalom race is set to offer World Cup leader Marco Odermatt a fresh chance of a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, after he missed out on the podium in the downhill and failed to finish in the super-G.
The giant slalom is the first men's technical event, the fourth overall, in alpine skiing at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
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.