Winter Olympics 2022 - Johan Clarey dedicates silver to friend and colleague after claiming first Olympic medal at 41

Downhill veteran Johan Clarey has dedicated his silver medal to his friend and former colleague David Poisson. Poisson, a French Alpine ski racer, passed away in 2017 after an accident in training. Ad/> And as 41-year-old Clarey became the oldest medal winner in Olympic Alpine skiing history, he paid tribute to Poisson.

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French former professional skier Valentin Giraud Moine says Clarey inspires others «to dream». «Johan had an incredible race,» he said. «He is having a perfect race.

He just needs one small detail to win. But to get an Olympic medal at 41 years old in the downhill… He is a skiing legend who will have marked the history of our sport forever. »Johan was our father, our big brother.

The fact that he is the one to get a medal makes everyone's heart feel good. [...] It's a reward for everyone, it's his medal but we take it as a team medal because Johan is a leader, he's the one who has pulled the group together for many years. «He is the one who holds the barracks and who, today, makes us dream, he makes us all dream.