Zürcher Nachrichten - Hector strikes giant slalom gold for Sweden after Shiffrin bombs

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Hector strikes giant slalom gold for Sweden after Shiffrin bombs

Hector strikes giant slalom gold for Sweden after Shiffrin bombs

Sweden's Sara Hector won the women's Olympic giant slalom on Monday in a race stripped of a showdown with Mikaela Shiffrin after the American slid out in the first leg.

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Hector, fastest down on the opening run of two, clocked a combined total of 1min 55.69sec to finish 0.28sec ahead of Italy's Federica Brignone, with current world champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland rounding out the podium.

Defending champion Shiffrin's bid for a third Olympic gold medal lasted only a handful of gates before she slipped wide and was unable to regain her line.

"The day was finished basically before it even started," the 26-year-old said.

It was a hammer blow for Shiffrin, who also won slalom gold at the 2014 Sochi Games, but the 26-year-old vowed to quickly refocus on Wednesday's shorter technical event in which she is a four-time world champion.

World Cup slalom standings leader Hector, however, lived up to her own billing as one of the favourites, holding her nerve in a drama-packed second run down the Ice River course that caught out many tipped racers.

Norway's Thea Louise Stjernesund took a convincing mid-field lead as Slovakia's six-time world championship medallist Petra Vlhova, 13th fastest in the first run, failed to make any impression in the second, with Austria's world bronze medallist Katharina Liensberger also fading.

A trio of Swiss racers including Wendy Holdener, twice world combined champion and winner of three medals at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, and reigning Olympic combined gold medallist Michelle Gisin then fell by the wayside.

The race moved into the top 10, starting with a fourth Swiss in the diminutive figure of defending world champion Gut-Behrami.

The 30-year-old made no mistake with the fastest second leg, in 57.24sec, to take the temporary lead.

Two-time former world champion Tessa Worley followed, but the French racer caught a gate and crashed out.

American Nina O'Brien also suffered a nasty crash, taken away by rescue sledge after sliding across the finish line without her skis.

That left Austrian Katharina Truppe and Hector -- and the Swede held her form magnificently to bring home the gold.

- 'Not going to cry' -

Shiffrin had warned pre-race that her performance would have to be "full gas, full precision", but she made a disastrous start to her Beijing Olympics campaign.

"There's a huge disappointment, not even counting medals," she said.

She said the Yanqing course was "beautiful yet unforgiving".

"I rarely go out in GS (giant slalom). The easiest thing to say is that I skied a couple of good turns and one turn wrong and I paid the consequences."

A lack of GS training, a back injury and 10 days spent in isolation after contracting Covid-19 also did not help her preparations, Shiffrin added.

"I will never get over this," she said. "I've never gotten over any.

"I'm not going to cry about this because that's just wasting energy. My best chance for the next races is to move forward, to refocus and I feel like I'm in a good place to do that.

"I don't know about the medals, but I know my skiing is good and I know that even my GS skiing is good... But you just don't know what's going to happen.

"I'm going to do my very best to keep the right mentality and keep pushing, and that's it."

P.E.Steiner--NZN