Alpine skiing-Kilde gets bronze compensation after Blue Monday
YANQING, China : Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde arrived at the Beijing Olympics as the world's dominant speed skier with talk of a potential double gold in store for the 29-year-old.
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Alpine skiing: Austria's Mayer claims historic gold in men's super-G
YANQING, China: Austria's Matthias Mayer became the first man to win an Alpine skiing gold medal at three consecutive Olympic Games after winning the super-G at the Beijing Games on Tuesday (Feb 8).
Winter Olympics 2022 - Ester Ledecka tops the elimination leaderboard by two seconds as Czech progresses to next round
Ester Ledecka progressed to the next stage of the women’s parallel giant slalom, easing through the elimination run with a 1:23.63 time — over two seconds quicker than second place Ramona Hofmeister. Tsubaki Miki of Japan and Russian Olympic Committee’s (ROC) Sofiya Nadyrshina also qualified with the fourth and fifth best times respectively, Miki coming in at 1:27.15 and Nadyrshina marginally slower at 1:27.22.
Nina O’Brien after horror incident led to compound fracture ‘I keep replaying it in my head’ - Winter Olympics 2022
Nina O’Brien has suffered a compound fracture of her left tibia and fibula, US Ski & Snowboard Team said. O’Brien hit the final gate during her second run in the giant slalom, with images suggesting that she may have suffered a serious injury. Ad/> She was taken from the hill on a toboggan before being taken to a medical centre in Yanqing.
Winter Olympics: History-making Matthias Mayer retains men's super-G title
Matthias Mayer defended his Olympic super-G title on Tuesday to make history as the first male alpine skier to win gold medals in three consecutive Games. Mayer, who won his first super-G title in Pyeongchang in 2018 and also won downhill gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, clocked a winning time of 1min 19.94sec.
Alpine skiing-Austria's Mayer claims historic gold in men's super-G
YANQING, China :Austria's Matthias Mayer became the first man to win an Alpine skiing gold medal at three consecutive Olympic Games after winning the super-G at the Beijing Games on Tuesday.
Olympics-Alpine skiing-Horror injury ends American skier O'Brien's Olympic campaign
YANQING, China (Reuters) - American alpine skier Nina O'Brien is out of the Beijing Winter Olympics after suffering compound fractures to her left leg during her giant slalom run, a U.S. team spokesperson said on Tuesday.