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Paris, Innerhofer and Marsaglia never enter the race and the top 15 remains utopia, after all the controversies of the past few hours. The Austrian signs the encore of PyeongChang and wins the third Olympic gold in three consecutive editions of the Games. Cochran-Siegle silver (at 4 cents!), Fifty years after mother Barbara, while Kilde wins her first bronze medal. What a blow for Odermatt, out in the final.
Tuesday 8 February 2022 7 minutes reading time
An authentic blue disaster, with no ifs and buts, in the Olympic super-g that brings Matthias Mayer straight into history.
In Yanqing, the Carinthian champion writes a legendary chapter for men's alpine skiing at the Games, becoming the first man to win at least one title in three consecutive editions, after gold in downhill in Sochi and in super-g, 4 years ago in Korea. Let's add yesterday's bronze downhill and "Mothl" literally becomes the man of the Olympics, he who, among other things, has already announced for some time that he wants to continue his career up to Milan-Cortina 2026 and who, instead, paradoxically he has never won medals at the Games.
What thrills for the very Austrian champion (far from perfect in the upper section, after having messed up even at the start), when Ryan Cochran-Siegle finishes behind him for just 4 cents, he who still had 18 ahead of the '' entrance of the final gut of pure sliding and which comes within a whisker to repeat the golden magic of his mother Barbara, who triumphed exactly 50 years ago in the Olympic slalom in Sapporo. The feeling is that the material has really made a difference on this snow, looking at the men on the podium yesterday and at the top two of the standings also today.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, in fact, gives over 6 tenths to Mayer in the final stretch (the Norwegian had the absolute best time up to 20 "from the finish line) and has to settle for bronze, with 42 cents behind, which still represents the first Olympic medal for the leader of the specialty cup.
The big disappointment of the day comes from Marco Odermatt, out at the compression exit (when he was 7 cents from Kilde and still ahead of Mayer) to take the best possible pitch for the infamous final plan. Without medals in these Games, the master of the World Cup will have to make a comeback.
Out also the new Olympic champion Beat Feuz, but this was not his race, to cherish the idea of the podium is Adrian Smiseth Sejersted, at the end of the fourth (+ 0 "74) and 2 cents ahead of Vincent Kriechmayr , he too dry in the two speed races and only fifth. Crawford is sixth at 85 cents, with many regrets for having made a mistake in the more technical section, but the Canadian still confirms himself ahead of the German couple formed by Baumann and Sander, authors all in all of a good performance that becomes excellent in the case of Giezendanner and Philp , considering the expectations, with the French ninth and the third North American tenth, while Alexis Pinturault, on his debut in this edition of Beijing, closes 11th at 1 ”42.
Chapter Italy: no athlete in the 15, the best is the much discussed Matteo Marsaglia who, despite losing a life in the final "corridor" (over a second from Mayer), is 17th at 2 "22 but does not even remotely save a very meager budget for the blues of speed. Dominik Paris never enters the race, 20th at 2 ”68, Christof Innerhofer also puts his exit from the scene in the carousel of central curves, when he was already out of a possible top ten.
The controversy will not subside, especially after what happened yesterday with the sensational declarations of Matteo Marsaglia and the (non) calling of Mattia Casse, brought into practice as a reserve player without being able to compete.
At the end of an Olympic four-year period, there will be many reflections.
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