Winter Olympics 2022 – Sofia Goggia pipped to gold as Corrine Suter wins downhill title to spoil comeback party

World champion Corrine Suter took home a stunning Olympic gold to spoil the ultimate comeback story for Sofia Goggia in the women’s downhill at Beijing 2022. Goggia suffered a sprained left knee, cruciate ligament damage and a fibula fracture when crashing in the Cortina d'Ampezzo super-G on January 23, but remarkably recovered in time to make the Winter Olympics.

Ad/> Looking to defend her title, Goggia overtook Italian teammate Nadia Delago to top the standings, but Switzerland's Suter — who won the last World Cup event prior to the Games — went sub-1:32 to add Olympic gold to her victory in the world championships last year. Beijing 2022Shiffrin 'hasn't decided' on competing in downhill despite 'very fast' practice run12/02/2022 AT 06:03 Delago claimed the bronze, her sister Nicol finished 11th, while American Mikaela Shiffrin was down in 18th.

Ester Ledecka was fifth out, and she was in the green when aiming to beat Elena Curtoni’s benchmark of 1:32.87 before spinning out of control. Remarkably, the three-time Olympic champion stayed on her skis to complete the run, but the Czech knew a shock gold was out of the question given the mistake halfway up the mountain.

Opinion: Goggia’s return could end up being story of the Games Suter wins last World Cup downhill race before Beijing Olympics Henderson extends Anfield invite to Liverpool fan Ryding after Beijing return “What a shame, but what a recovery,” Nick Fellows said on Eurosport's commentary, before Emma Carrick-Anderson added: “She was flying!” Ragnhild Mowinckel, who won silver in the downhill at Pyeongchang 2018, was a second off the pace and out of the medal positions early on too. Curtoni had been the first skier down and hers was still the time to beat after