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The ultimate particular person gold medal for alpine snowboarding on the 2022 Beijing Olympics belongs to Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin.
Gisin defended her title and received the ladies’s alpine mixed, that includes one downhill run and one slalom run, with a time of two:25.67 on Wednesday. She was joined by Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener (2:26.72 for silver) and Italy’s Federica Brignone (2:27.52 for bronze) on the medal podium.
Mikaela Shiffrin was in place to problem for her first medal of the Video games after a powerful displaying within the downhill, however she skied out through the slalom portion in one other disappointing outing.
Whereas she is already one of many all-time greats at 26 years outdated, she didn’t end within the slalom or big slalom both, earlier than putting 18th in downhill and ninth in Tremendous G.
She has obtained plenty of support even in defeat and figured to compete for a medal Wednesday since she took house silver within the mixed occasion within the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
It felt just like the medal was coming after downhill.
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Whereas she did not come near medaling within the downhill competitors, it was clear the expertise she picked up was key when she completed fifth in that portion. Mix that along with her skill within the different half of the mixed occasion because the 2014 gold medalist in slalom and 2018 gold medalist in big slalom, and Shiffrin was out of the blue a risk to Gisin.
Gisin entered the alpine mixed because the defending Olympic champion, and he or she already took house the bronze within the Tremendous G in Beijing. Fellow Swiss competitor Holdener was additionally on the shortlist of contenders as a four-time Olympic medalist who took house bronze in this yr’s slalom and on this occasion in 2018.
The mission for Gisin, Holdener and all of the contenders was to have a wholesome lead over Shiffrin after the downhill given the American’s prowess in slalom, however each Swiss representatives have been behind her after the primary half.
In reality, everybody however Austria’s Christine Scheyer, Czech Republic’s Ester Ledecka, Austria’s Ramona Siebenhofer and France’s Romane Miradoli have been forward of Shiffrin after a formidable downhill run that put her in place to problem for gold.
Alas, the slalom was an issue as soon as once more for the American star.
That cleared the best way for Gisin, Holdener and Brignone to win the medals.
