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.


