Defending champion Matthias Mayer of Austria gained the lads’s super-G on the Beijing Video games, capturing a 3rd Olympic gold medal on Tuesday.
Ryan Cochran-Siegle of america gained a shock silver medal, ending 0.04 seconds behind in second. World Cup super-G chief Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway was 0.42 behind in third.
Mayer broke Norway’s 16-year grip on the lads’s Olympic super-G title when he gained in 2018. That was 4 years after profitable the downhill in Sochi. The 31-year-old Mayer additionally claimed bronze within the males’s downhill on Monday. Mayer’s achievement places him within the pantheon of Alpine ski greats. In ladies’s snowboarding, Italy’s Deborah Compagnoni gained Olympic gold in super-G in 1992 and large slalom in 1994 and 1998. Mayer’s gold additionally makes him the primary skier, male or feminine, to win gold in three successive Olympics purely in pace occasions. His three golds additionally take him degree with Toni Sailer in Austria’s checklist of Olympic winners in Alpine snowboarding.
Marco Odermatt of Switzerland was among the many favorites however he misplaced management of his skis on a flip and skied out. Odermatt was slower than Kilde on the remaining checkpoint earlier than he went out.
Snowboarding appeared somewhat totally different 50 years in the past when Barbara Cochran gained the Olympic slalom (NBC broadcast/Getty). pic.twitter.com/vwmCT8pAD1
Cochran-Siegle has only one profession win on the World Cup circuit however threatened to push Mayer into second with an aggressive run that earned him his shock silver. He continued a household custom within the Winter Olympics. His mom, Barbara Cochran, gained gold within the slalom on the 1972 Video games.
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