Olympic news: Gisin storms to Gold while Vonn fails to finish

Michelle Gisin took Gold in the Women’s Combined earlier today while a disappointed Lindsey Vonn failed to finish this, her final Olympic race. Gisin, 24 from Switzerland, won in 2:20.90 seconds – with American Mikaela Shiffrin, 0.97secs behind in Silver. She adds that medal to the Gold she took earlier in the Slalom event. Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener landed Bronze which she adds to the Silver she won in the slalom. Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway narrowly missed out on a third medal of these Games, coming 4th some 0.29secs behind Holdener.

However, it was Vonn, 33, who ended up the subject of most of the headlines this morning. She had the fastest time in the downhill which meant she would go last in the slalom but ended up with a DNF. It was a disappointing end to the Olympic  career of one of the most successful Alpine racers ever – male or female. As she bowed out of what must surely be her last Olympics Vonn commented, “It’s been a great ride. I’ll take a lot of great memories with me.

“After a certain amount of injuries you just can’t get back to the level you were at. I’m not where I used to be and I never will be, and that’s probably the hardest thing for me to take.”

 

 

RESULTS:

Rank	Country	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	SWI	Michelle Gisin	(3) 1:40.14	(4) 40.76	2:20.90	0.00
2	US	Mikaela Shiffrin	(6) 1:41.35	(3) 40.52	2:21.87	+0.97
3	SWI	Wendy Holdener	(10) 1:42.11	(1) 40.23	2:22.34	+1.44
4	NOR	Ragnhild Mowinckel	(2) 1:40.11	(11) 42.52	2:22.63	+1.73
5	SVK	Petra Vlhova	(13) 1:42.58	(2) 40.41	2:22.99	+2.09
6	CAN	Valerie Grenier	(8) 1:41.79	(8) 41.65	2:23.44	+2.54
7	AUT	Ramona Siebenhofer	(4) 1:40.34	(15) 43.11	2:23.45	+2.55
8	ITA	Federica Brignone	(12) 1:42.51	(6) 41.02	2:23.53	+2.63
9	SWI	Denise Feierabend	(17) 1:43.04	(5) 40.90	2:23.94	+3.04
10	ITA	Marta Bassino	(14) 1:42.61	(7) 41.63	2:24.24	+3.34
11	SLO	Ana Bucik	(15) 1:42.77	(9) 41.99	2:24.76	+3.86
12	FRA	Laura Gauche	(11) 1:42.15	(12) 42.64	2:24.79	+3.89
13	AUT	Ricarda Haaser	(7) 1:41.75	(14) 43.06	2:24.81	+3.91
14	SER	Nevena Ignjatovic	(16) 1:42.88	(10) 42.23	2:25.11	+4.21
15	USA	Alice Merryweather	(18) 1:43.17	(16) 43.73	2:26.90	+6.00
16	POL	Maryna Gasienica-Daniel	(19) 1:44.35	(13) 42.84	2:27.19	+6.29
17	CZE	Katerina Paulathova	(20) 1:44.83	(17) 44.26	2:29.09	+8.19
18	SVK	Barbara Kantorova	(21) 1:45.58	(18) 44.36	2:29.94	+9.04
	FRA	Romane Miradoli	(9) 1:41.83	DNF
	US	Lindsey Vonn	(1) 1:39.37	DNF
	BIH	Elvedina Muzaferija	(22) 1:46.62	DNF
	SLO	Marusa Ferk	(5) 1:40.98	DSQ
	ITA	Johanna Schnarf	DNF
	AUS	Greta Small	DNF
	CAN	Candace Crawford	DNF
	BEL	Kim Vanreusel	DNF
	CHI	Noelle Barahona	DNF
	CAN	Roni Remme	DNF
	AUT	Stephanie Venier	DNS
	ITA	Sofia Goggia	DNS
	FRA	Anne-Sophie Barthet	DNS
	MON	Alexandra Coletti	DNS