The best Croatian skier Filip Zubcic took 14th place in the giant slalom at the Winter Olympic Games in Bormio, while the new Olympic winner is the Norwegian with a Brazilian passport, Lucas Braathen Pinheiro.
After taking 16th place in the first race, Zubcic had a better start in the second run.
Unfortunately, it is in the third sector had problems with ski gogglesso at one point he took them off his face.
He is quite sure of that spoiled the concentrationbut also made the performance much more difficult, so he crossed the finish line in fifth at that moment. In the end, he took 14th place.
The gold went to the Norwegian To Lucas Braathen Pinheirowhich has been performing under the Brazilian flag since 2024.
Braathen Pinheiro was the best after the first run, defending the lead and eventually winning the first medal for a South American country in the history of the Winter Olympics.
Historic gold for Brazil, Odermatt did not repeat Tomba’s success
The biggest contender for gold and the defending champion from Beijing, the Swiss Marco Odermatt he was second with 0.58 seconds behind, while Swiss Loic Meillard won bronze with 1.17 seconds behind.
Odermatt had a chance become the first skier who defended the giant slalom gold after Albert Tomba, but failed.
The legendary Italian thus remained the only skier who defended the Olympic title in giant slalom. He won his first gold in 1988 in Calgary, and defended his title four years later in Albertville.
This was for Zubčić fourth Olympic giant slalom. At the first, in Sochi 2014, he did not reach the finish line of the first run.
At the second, in PyeongChang 2018, he finished 24th, and four years ago in Beijing, he achieved his best result at the Games, finishing 10th, surpassing the 12th place in the alpine combined from PyeongChang.
In addition to giant slalom, Zubcic will also compete in Bormio slalomwhich is scheduled for Monday, February 16, where he will be joined Samuel Kolega and Istok Rodeš.
(Hina | Photo: FIS / Action Press / Mine Kasapoglu)
