Beat Feuz wins Olympic downhill, completes career collection
Baku, February 7, AZERTAC
Beat Feuz finally has the one major victory missing from his overflowing collection of downhill achievements: Olympic gold, according to AP.
The diminutive Swiss skier mastered a tricky course that had never been raced before by the world’s best and finished a slim 0.10 seconds ahead of 41-year-old Johan Clarey of France on Monday.
“I can’t think of anything more beautiful than flying home with a gold medal around my neck,” Feuz said.
Feuz won a silver medal in super-G and bronze in downhill at the 2018 Olympics and is the four-time reigning World Cup downhill champion. He also won the downhill world title in 2017 and holds the career record of 45 World Cup podium finishes in the sport’s fastest discipline.
Clarey became the oldest man to win an Olympic medal in Alpine skiing. The previous oldest was Bode Miller, who was 36 when he took the bronze in super-G in 2014.
Two-time Olympic champion Matthias Mayer of Austria was 0.16 behind and added a bronze medal to his career haul.
