The American Mikaela Shiffrin, the great figure of alpine skiing, has been eliminated at the first change in the women’s giant that this Monday opens, in Yanqing, the Olympic competition of that sport at the Beijing 2022 Games; in which she fell at the top of the first round, so she will not play the second and decisive round.
Shiffrin, 26 – who several years ago he has won everything, including two Olympic golds, six World Cups and three World Cup generalsa competition in which he has 73 victories-, who started with number 7, fell on the wall of the Yanqing track where the 82 participants are currently competing in the first heat in a test in which they also the Spanish Nuria Pau competes; who has not yet dropped (the Girona will do so with number 48).
The second round, which will decide the test, will be played from half past two in the afternoon (half past seven in the morning Central European time: 06:30 GMT).
Shiffrin, one of only seven female skiers throughout the history of alpine skiing to have won in all disciplines, He will still have the opportunity later during these Games to expand his more than outstanding record; but he will not be able to do it this Monday, in which he aspired to defend the title achieved four years ago, at the PyeongChang Games (South Korea).
Sara Hector is the leader, and the Spanish Nuria Pau finishes fortieth
Swedish Sara Hector leads the female giant. Leader of the World Cup of the discipline, covered the first course in 57 seconds and 56 hundredths and leads -after the first thirty have completed the first descent, including the favorites- with 30 hundredths of an advantage over the Austrian Katharina Truppe and 42 compared to the Italian Federica Brignone, who occupies the third provisional place in a test that will be decided at half past two in the afternoon (half past seven in the morning in Central European time: 06:30.
The Spanish Nuria Pau, the only representative of our country, finished fortieth. Pau, a debutant in the Games and who pays for much of her preparation herself, was six seconds and 63 hundredths of the time with which the Swedish Sarah Hector provisionally leads the test (57 seconds and 56 hundredths) and -unlike the World Cup tests, in which only the first thirty do so- will dispute the second round, starting at half past two in the afternoon (half past seven in the morning in central European time: 06:30 hours GMT); something that the American Mikaela Shiffrin, the great figure of this sport, who left the route in the upper part of it, will not do.