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The statements of the other two protagonists of the Olympic podium of a giant with Brignone of silver between the Swedish, today even at the debut at the Games after a thousand physical problems, and the Ticino.
Monday 7 February 2022 4 minutes reading time
Five consecutive podiums, with three successes of which the last two, in Kranjska Gora and Kronplatz, in a truly impressive way.
Sara Hector arrived at this Olympic giant with all the weight of the prediction on her shoulders for how much "combined" in the World Cup and, also for this reason, today was truly extraordinary what the 29-year-old Swede did, who was for the first time at gate to the Games; a career that seemed to be one of regrets for the many injuries, which took place at the beginning of this season with the red bib in giant and, now, the masterpiece of a lifetime.
Deserved, indeed deserved, for the second gold of the yellow and blue girls between the wide doors in an Olympic competition, 30 years after Pernilla Wiberg's triumph in Albertville 1992 (on the day of Deborah Compagnoni's drama): "It is a dream that realizes, what else to say - Sara told Eurosport microphones - Going down, I heard all the coaches shouting, then crossing the finish line seeing me first was the most incredible emotion of my life.
I won the Olympics, I still can't believe it ”.
Behind Federica Brignone, splendid with her silver, a radiant Lara Gut-Behrami who really could not have asked for more from this giant, both for the very subdued first heat (eighth, but 1 "51 from the top), but also for the complicated approach to this Olympics between Covid and skipped races after the bad weekend in Cortina. The second jersey of the red-cross champion at the Games arrives eight years after the descent of Sochi and is again painted in bronze. "The timing did not work in the first - said Lara, who in the second heat set the best time trial, in the interview reported by the" Blick "- while in the second I went like on the rails, apart from the error above .
I have always wanted to win a medal in giant, last year I won gold at the World Championships in Cortina, now the bronze here at the Olympics is perfect. If I am strong in this discipline, I know that I will also be strong in speed. I am really happy for Sara's victory, she deserves it because she is an incredible fighter and I appreciate her very much, also being a very nice person ".
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