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YANQING, China :Switzerland's Corinne Suter was in the gold medal position after the first 20 skiers had completed their runs in the women's downhill at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday.
Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson has sent a message of support to Team GB skiing star Dave Ryding as the slalom star prepares to bid for Winter Olympic glory. Ryding, who last month became Britain's first ever winner of a World Cup event with a sensational victory in Kitzbuhel, will race over two runs on Wednesday, hoping to improve a disappointing Beijing 2022 for Great Britain that has seem the team so far fail to win a single medal. Ad/> But however he finishes in Beijing, Ryding will return to an open invite from club captain Jordan Henderson.
At this point of the games, Team GB’s medal hopes seem more theoretical than something that might actually come to pass. As we enter the final few days of action, the odds on a first blank slate since the Albertville games of 1992 get shorter and shorter but one man is determined to make sure that unwanted accolade is avoided. Ad/> On Wednesday, Dave Ryding takes to the slopes in the men’s slalom perhaps with the hopes of a nation on his shoulders.
British alpine skier Dave Ryding will carry the hopes of a nation as he launches from the start gate in the men’s slalom on Wednesday (16 February).
India's lone participant in the Winter Olympics, alpine skier Arif Khan, finished 45th in the giant slalom event in Beijing 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. As many as 33 skiers could not finish Race 1 while two did not start. Khan queued up 85th in the start list of 89 athletes from 62 nations.
Mikaela Shiffrin has decided to compete in the women’s downhill event for the first time at a Winter Olympics, but said she is no longer focusing solely on winning a medal. Shiffrin's Olympics got off to a disastrous start at Beijing 2022 as she failed to finish her opening runs in both the giant slalom and slalom, two events where she was a gold-medal favourite. She then came ninth in the super-G — the first time she competed at that event in the Olympics.
William Flaherty was overjoyed when he crossed the finish line of the men’s giant slalom event at Beijing 2022.
YANQING, China : Mikaela Shiffrin will start Tuesday's women's downhill race and plans to complete her goal of taking part in every Alpine skiing event at the Winter Olympics, the American said on Monday.