Henrik Kristoffersen does harakiri, in Andr Myhrer the Olympic gold of the slalom of Yongpyong

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Let's leave the fact that Marcel Hirscher is out today but Henrik Kristoffersen showed in the second heat of the Olympic slalom of Yongpyong because the Austrian wins the World Cups because mentally he is clearly the strongest of all, especially him.

Thursday 22 February 2018 3 minutes reading time

The Norwegian has thrown away a sensational opportunity coming out in the opening doors of the second heat and delivered a gold that already seemed to his AndrÃ© Myhrer, second half of the race, that shut up after the victory in the specialty cup in 2012 and the bronze of Vancouver 2010 denies being only a specialist in the World Cup finals and brings Sweden back to the highest step of the men's slalom podium at the age of 38 after Ingemar Stenmark's triumph, and for Sweden it is an incredible double goal in the narrow door after the gold of Frida Hansdotter among women. The silver, with a gap of 34 cents, goes to a true miracle of nature, Ramon ZenhÃ¤usern, 202 cm in height and immeasurable skiing talent, climbed from ninth position, winner of the City Event in Stockholm but never on the podium in slalom in the Cup of the World, it was from the same 1980 of the success of Stenmark that Switzerland did not place a representative on the podium of the men's slalom, then Jacques LÃ¼thy was bronze, the same metal that today brings home, detached of 67 cents and in comeback from the twelfth place with the best partial the Austrian Michael Matt, younger brother of Mario, retired outgoing champion. Sweden, Switzerland and Austria: these in the order the three steps of the podium of both slalom, something absolutely incredible. Who eats their hands is France, who places three from fourth to sixth: the young and talented ClÃ©ment NoÃ«l is 4 cents from the podium, Alexis Pinturault to 6, Victor Muffat-Jeandet to 9. By far the best result in career for the Swedish Kristoffer Jakobsen, seventh, eighth Swiss Daniel Yule, ninth the British Dave Ryding, tenth Norwegian Sebastian Foss SolevÃ¥g. Twelfth Manfred Moelgg, the best of the Azzurri, could not do better than the sixteenth place a Stefano Gross bent in two from the pain.

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