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Swiss skier Suter wins last downhill before Olympics

In the absence of Sofia Goggia, world champion Corinne Suter won the last downhill before the Beijing Olympics.

Beijing Olympics 2022 - Love, comebacks and fairytale stories - Ryding and Ormerod among Team GB athletes to watch

It is the stories that make an Olympic Games, often as much as the medals themselves. In Tokyo, many shared a tear with Tom Daley when the British diver finally won gold, two high jumpers shared the Olympic title with equal joy, and Simone Biles helped people realise mental health needs to be prioritised — and talked about.

Sweden's Sara Hector wins final World Cup giant slalom race ahead of Olympics

After waiting seven years for a second World Cup win, Sara Hector now has three more victories in giant slalom — and they could not have come at a better time with the Winter Olympics starting next week.

Sara Hector cements status as Olympic favourite by securing third giant slalom World Cup win of season

Sara Hector continued her strong form by winning the final women’s giant slalom race before the Beijing Olympics, as Mikaela Shiffrin struggled once again. Hector cemented her status as the person to beat in the Olympic GS by overcoming a big mistake in her second run in Kronplatz to earn a third World Cup win of the season in her favourite discipline. Ad/> First-run leader Petra Vlhova couldn’t match the Swede’s time and just missed out on her first GS win of the season, finishing 0.15 seconds behind.