BEIJING – Austrian skier Christine Scheyer was at the helm after the first part of the alpine combination at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. After the combination descent, she led by one hundredth over the Czech Ester Ledecka, the third was another Austrian Ramone Siebenhoferová (+0.14).
American Mikaele Shiffrin was currently in fifth place with a shortfall of only 56 hundred seconds, which put her in the position of a clear topfavorite to win a gold medal before the slalom part (7.00 CET). As the reigning world champion in combination, Shiffrin is still waiting for her first precious metal from Beijing.
The two-time Olympic winner was eliminated in both slalom and giant slalom, finishing ninth in super-G and down in 18th place. In combination, he defends silver four years ago. In the slalom she is significantly better than all four opponents before her after the downhill, the fourth is the Frenchman Romane Miradoli (+0.53).
Holdener and Gisin lost
Other co-Bavarians in the combination of the Swiss Wendy Holdener and Michelle Gision will go to the second part of the alpine versatility competition from the 11th resp. 12 partitions. Bronze from Pyongyang and holder of a small globe for the discipline from 2016 and 2018 Holdener lost 99 hundredths of a second to the leader, gold defender Gisin lost exactly one second.
Italian Federica Brignone, who dominated the World Championships in combination in 2019 and 2020, was eighth (+0.69) after the congress, and her compatriot Elena Curtoni did not complete the combined congress. 26 competitors started.
Slovakia had no representation in the competition, the world vice-champion combined Petra Vlhová decided to return home from Beijing after the Olympic trials in slalom and will focus on winning a big globe in the World Cup.
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