Alpine combined: the first olympic title for the Austrian Hirscher

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Tuesday, 13 February, 2018 01:58

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The Austrian Marcel Hirscher won his first olympic title by winning Tuesday in the handset of the Games to Pyeongchang, before the French Alexis Pinturault and Victor Muffat-Jeandet.

Hirscher had conducted the 12th time of the descent, and despite the wind it has produced an excellent slalom run to iron in front of all of his opponents. Pinturault, its main competitor, finished in 23/100th of a second and Muffat-Jeandet took the third place with 01 second 02/100th.

“It is a dream for me. To make such a descent, it is a surprise to me and my staff,” responded Hirscher after the arrival at the microphone of France TV. “This is one of the best runs of my life. It was really close with Alexis. I am really very happy with this gold medal, everyone in Austria was waiting for her”.

Hirscher, 28 years old, had already won the money on the slalom at the olympic games-2014 in Sochi.

The Austrian, six-time winner of the world Cup, dominated the alpine skiing for several years. This season he has managed to maintain its dominance in spite of an injury to a malleolus injury suffered at the end of the summer. The Leader of the world Cup, he has also been world champion in the combined in 2015, and vice-world champion in the discipline last year.

Did not start: Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR), Bostjan Kline (SLO), Henrik Von appen (CHI), Josef Ferstl (GER), Andreas Sander (GER), Christopher Hoerl (MDA), Benjamin Thomsen (CAN)

Have not finished: Peter Fill (ITA), Dominik Paris (ITA), Matthias Mayer (AUT), Justin Murisier (SUI), Martin Catering (SLO), Vincent Kriechmayr (TUE), Maxence Muzaton (FRA), Linus Strasser (GER), Marco Pfiffner (LIE), Jan Zabystran (CZE), Sebastian-Foss Solevaag (NOR), Filip Forejtek (CZE), Michal N ° (POL), Matej Falat (SVK), Ivan Kovbasnyuk (UKR), Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander (BOWL), Patrick Mc Millan (EIR), Pavel Trikhichev (SRO), Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA), Manuel Osborne-Paradis (CAN)

Later that night, the Canadian Benjamin Thomsen (26th), Broderick Thompson (33rd) and James Crawford (37th) will participate in the test in the slalom.