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Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: India's Arif Khan Finishes 45th In Giant Slalom
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.
Olympic wake-up call: Canada's de Bruin in position to make Games history
Christine de Bruin is sitting in second place after two heats of the inaugural Olympic monobob event at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games.
Olympics - Alpine skiing - Odermatt's calculated risk earns Swiss third Alpine gold
YANQING, China : Giant slalom gold medallist Marco Odermatt of Switzerland credited a risky decision to change his skis, despite leading after his first run in Sunday's race, for his country's third Alpine skiing gold medal of the Winter Olympics.
Olympics - Alpine skiing - Kranjec gets silver reward after near misses
YANQING, China : The Olympics reward the performers who deliver on a given day once every four years but Slovenian Zan Kranjec's silver medal in the men's giant slalom on Sunday felt like compensation for years of consistency and near misses.
Winter Olympics: Jamaican skier Benjamin Alexander on finishing men's giant slalom
«If you finish you beat everyone who doesn't,» said Jamaican skier Benjamin Alexander hours before he took to the slopes at Beijing 2022.
Beijing Winter Olympics: Arif Khan finishes 45th in giant slalom
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.
‘Ouch! A big impact!’ – Skiers smash through gates in ‘really unusual’ crashes at Beijing Winter Olympics
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.