Beijing Winter Olympics: Team Event, Italy knocked out against the US. Gold for Austria, Shiffrin disaster

Italy out in the quarters and Mikaela Shiffrin fourth. Thus ends the Team Event, the last race of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Alpine skiing program. Gold went to Austria, who in the final beat Germany: 2–2 the final result, with the Austrians awarded by the best sum of the fastest times (48 ”27 against 48” 46) while the United States were beaten by Norway with the same principle: 2-2 and best sum of the times, for 42 cents.

The race

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Italy lined up Brignone, Bassino, De Aliprandini and Vinatzer owners, with Nicol Delago and Sala reserves. In the round of 16 the Azzurri beat Russia 3-1, with Brignone who beat Pleshkova, De Aliprandini Kuznetsov (by 4/100), Bassino overtook Tkachenko while Vinatzer, who is above all a slalomist, beat Andrienko. As the wind picked up, in the quarterfinals there was the challenge to the United States, which immediately started badly with the defeat of Brignone against Paula Moltzan (of 56/100). The Aosta Valley raced on the slower red track. De Aliprandini on the blue came out against Tommy Ford, while in the third run came the victory on the blue of Marta Bassino, able to beat Mikaela Shiffrin by two cents, with Vinatzer (red) then heavily defeated by Radamus. “We tried – said Federica Brignone -, we lost against a very strong team like the United States, Paula Moltzan did the same time against me as the men.” “It’s a shame because I’m skiing well but I’m going home with nothing – explained Luca De Aliprandini -. I believed a lot in the Team Event, I’m aware that my crash in the quarterfinals against the United States was decisive, it’s a game in which you win and lose all together but it weighed on me because it also involved my teammates. “

Zero Shiffrin

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The United States were then defeated in the semifinals by Germany and in the final for third place by Norway. Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympics thus ends with a sensational zero in the number of medals won: falling in giant, slalom and combined, she finished ninth in super-G and eighteenth in descent, in addition to fourth place in teams. Six attempts, zero medals.