Lara Gut-Behrami's Olympic redemption

A fourth place at the Olympics – that’s a nightmare for an athlete. A medal is so close and yet so far at the same moment. You can therefore imagine what Lara Gut-Behrami looked like during the last two Olympic Games after the Super-G. In Sochi in 2014 she was seven hundredths short of bronze, in Pyeongchang in 2018 she was only one hundredth away - both times she came fourth, both times the disappointment was enormous. Now the Swiss woman's tears of sadness have turned into tears of joy.

In the Super-G in Beijing, the 30-year-old from Ticino used all of her driving skills, drove an extremely tight line and completed the run on the newly built slope in Yanqing by far the fastest. A top ride with which Gut-Behrami pushed the previous leader, Austrian Mirjam Puchner, into second place by 22 hundredths of a second. Afterwards, no runner came even close to the Swiss woman's time, which is why the first Olympic victory in Lara Gut-Behrami's career became increasingly clear and finally came to an end around half past 2 a.m. (CET). Late satisfaction For the 30-year-old, it is the third medal overall at the Winter Games. In 2014 she won bronze in the downhill in Sochi, and a few days ago she won the same medal in the giant slalom. The fact that Gut-Behrami has recovered from her difficult years became clear a year ago when she was crowned double world champion (super-G and giant slalom) in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In addition, she narrowly missed winning the overall World Cup last winter.

In addition to the 34-time World Cup winner, another Swiss woman, Michelle Gisin, made it onto the podium: Luca De Aliprandini's friend took the bronze medal behind Mirjam Puchner. Azzurre disappoint But the race also had some disappointments, especially for the Azzurre. Federica Brignone won three Super-Gs in the World Cup this year and was one of the big favorites in Yanqing, but she couldn't get up to speed and only finished seventh. Elena Curtoni, who has three Super-G podium places this year, was also unable to fulfill her medal dream: she came in tenth. Mikaela Shiffrin, who wanted to gain self-confidence after two bitter disappointments in the slalom and giant slalom, ended up in 9th place.

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Lara Gut-Behrami's Olympic redemption

Lara Gut-Behrami and the Olympic Games – that hasn't been her true love yet. That seems to be changing in Beijing. The Swiss woman was crowned Olympic champion on Friday, ending a bitter series.

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