Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin disqualified on first runSweden’s Sara Hector takes gold ahead of Federica BrignoneSweden’s Sara Hector won the Olympic women’s giant slalom on Monday to punctuate an astonishing reversal of form in the technical discipline hours after Mikaela Shiffrin’s bid for a record medal haul in
Beijing was thrown off course with a rare disqualification.
The 29-year-old Hector completed two runs down the steep descent known as the Ice River in a combined time of 1min 55.69sec, coming in 0.28sec faster than Italy’s Federica Brignone, who settled for silver, and 0.72sec better than Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland, who took bronze.