Brignone's Bronze & Shiffrin's Nightmare: Stormy Combined Final

Everything was set for Mikaela Shiffrin's great redemption. The American, who had already become a tragic figure at these Olympic Games with her failures in the slalom and giant slalom, performed strongly in the combination. She was in 5th place at halftime and was in an ideal starting position for her flagship discipline, the slalom. Also because the course was set by her trainer Mike Day. But then the currently most successful skier in the world experienced another drama.

After just a few seconds, Shiffrin hit a goal too directly, had to correct, lost his balance and was eliminated. This meant that the last chance for a medal for the US superstar was lost. Shiffrin then stood on the edge of the track for minutes, looking in disbelief and having to be comforted by the supervisors. Brignone takes bronze As we all know, one man's sorrow is another man's joy: Shiffrin, a very hot favorite, was eliminated. If the ski lady from Colorado had completed her run, who knows whether Federica Brignone would have ended up with her second medal at these Winter Games. The Aostan woman showed a solid descent and an astonishingly strong and sparkling clean slalom, which took her to third place in the final ranking and thus to the bronze medal. For Brignone, it is the second precious metal in Beijing after giant slalom silver.

Federica Brignone took bronze. © APA/afp / DIMITAR DILKOFF

Gold and silver, on the other hand, went to Switzerland: Michelle Gisin and Wendy Holdener, who became the nominal favorites after Shiffrin's failure, showed no nerves and grabbed the first two places. Gold for Gisin, silver for Holdener For Gisin (she is Luca De Aliprandini's girlfriend) it is the second Olympic victory, as she already won gold in the combined event in Pyeongchang. With silver, Holdener won her fifth medal at the Winter Games. By the way, it was Switzerland's fifth Olympic skiing victory in Beijing - that's a unique achievement.

However, there was nothing to gain for the only South Tyrolean at the start, Nicol Delago. Ninth after the downhill, she was eliminated from the slalom halfway through the race. This means that the Olympic Games are over for the woman from Val Gardena. Discontinued model combination A look at the results shows that the combination is a discontinued model: only 15 runners made it into the final ranking. Tereza Nova was 14th, almost 10 seconds behind, while the Chinese exotic Fanying Kong even crossed the finish line 22 seconds late.

Now there is another ski race on the program: the team event will take place on Saturday night.

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Brignone's Bronze & Shiffrin's Nightmare: Stormy Combined Final

The last individual race in Alpine skiing at these Olympic Games is history: On Thursday morning, the women's combined event took place, which caused a lot of drama.

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