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BEIJING — Swedish skier Sara Hector capped a recent career resurgence in the best way possible, winning the gold medal in the women's giant slalom at the Beijing Olympics on Monday for her first individual victory at a major championship.
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The Swiss racer clocked 1min 42.69sec, finishing 0.10sec ahead of 41-year-old Frenchman Johan Clarey, while Austrian Matthias Mayer claimed a third Olympic medal in three Games with bronze. Clarey became the oldest alpine skiing medallist in Olympic history. Pre-race favourite Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway finished fifth, completing a miserable day for skiing's golden couple after his American girlfriend Mikaela Shiffrin slid out of the women's giant slalom earlier.
The youngest member of the British team at the Beijing Olympics, Kirsty Muir, booked her place in the Big Air final as the 17-year-old qualified seventh.
The ice hockey match between Canada and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) was delayed for nearly an hour as late Covid tests threw the tie into doubt. Canada — who did not come out onto the ice — refused to play because ROC had not produced definitive Covid results.
Mikaela Shiffrin, one of America's biggest hopes for Winter Olympic glory in alpine skiing, says she will «never get over» crashing out of the women's giant slalom on Monday.
Beat Feuz produced a fine run to win gold in the men's downhill at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Centre in Beijing. The Swiss racer, who won super-G silver and downhill bronze in Pyeongchang 2018, snatched top spot from Matthias Mayer with a special run of 1:42.69 to claim his first ever gold medal. Ad/> Johan Clarey, aged 41, surged into silver medal position after producing the race of his life with a time of 1:42.79.