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Olympic Games, the queen race: the Swiss crowned an incredible career, beating a magnificent Johan Clarey (just one tenth and first medal at 41) and Matthias Mayer, back on the podium that touches James Crawford, fourth. "Domme" one cent from Kilde and ahead of Odermatt and Kriechmayr in a challenge between giants.
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After Bernhard Russi, who designed the Yanqing track, Pirmin Zurbriggen is 12 years after Didier Defago's triumph.
Beat Feuz becomes the fourth Swiss to conquer the Olympic downhill title, putting the most precious seal on an absolute champion course, after the world title at home in Sankt Moritz 2017 and 4 consecutive World Cups in the queen discipline. Bronze in PyeongChang, the almost 35-year-old Swiss (he will have his birthday on 11 February) gives himself the most beautiful joy, suffering and not a little when Johan Clarey, who started six numbers after him, got to just 10 cents.
Phenomenal the French veteran, who at 41 took home the first Olympic medal (he is the oldest in the history of alpine skiing at the Games), touching his first victory at the highest level for the umpteenth time, after 9 podiums in CdM and world silver in super-g in Are.
Matthias Mayer missed 16 cents, however, for a sensational trio of gold in three different editions in speed, but the Carinthian's bronze is a great weight, who in fact lost the chance to triumph in the very first section of the track , the one with the most complicated diagonals. The Austrian kept James Crawford off the podium, never so close to the top 3 even in the cup, for just 7 cents: no sensational surprise, the young Canadian was one of the main outsiders for what he has shown in recent weeks and here in testing.
Those who leave disappointed by this five-circle descent are certainly Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the main favorite on the eve and only fifth at + 0 "51 from Feuz, after having committed two important smears before the final sliding section of the" Rock ", where the winner then made the difference. A cent behind the Norwegian, here is Dominik Paris: 6th place, after the fourth in PyeongChang, and a little bitter taste in the mouth after an amazing start, 27 cents ahead of Feuz after the initial more technical section. The blue champion lacked the necessary confidence with this snow to make the ski slide in his own way, so much so that he lost almost 8 tenths right from the middle of the track down.
Applause for Marco Odermatt's Olympic debut, 7th at 71 cents on a track that is not his, ahead of Kriechmayr 8th, confirming that all the greats, Crawford excluded (but we have already said about this talent), are up front.
After Max Franz, 9th at 83 cents, we go beyond the second behind to find Kline to close the top ten. It was a very bitter descent, out on the first diagonal that created problems especially for the first to descend, with Matteo Marsaglia 15th at 1 ”37, author of some very good technical passages, but who would have needed something different to really fight in the medal area.
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