The Gipuzkoan Adur Etxezarreta The descent – the queen event of alpine skiing – of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, which he won, on the ‘Rock’ slope in Yanqing, finished in a meritorious seventeenth place this Monday, the Swiss Beat Feuz.
It is the best result ever by a participant from the Spanish delegation.
Etxezarreta, 26 years old -who will also compete in the super-gi this Tuesday-, was one second and 43 hundredths behind the brand-new downhill Olympic champion and shared seventeenth place with the German Andreas Sanders.
the swiss Beat Feuz crowned his brilliant sports career by proclaiming himself Olympic downhill champion, the queen test of alpine skiing, of the Beijing 2022 Games, which was held this Monday on the demanding Yanqing track, in which the Frenchman Johan Clarey captured the silver medaloh the austrian Matthias Mayer, the bronze.
The test was postponed
The strong wind forced the postponement, in Yanqing, of the descent, the queen event of the men’s alpine skiing of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, initially scheduled for this Sunday and which, after three delays, was postponed.
This was announced by the International Ski Federation (FIS). “The technical jury and the organizing committee have made the decision to postpone the descent for the sake of safety and equality“, said the aforementioned body.
the norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde -leader of the World Cup in the discipline- had been the fastest on Friday in the second training session; Adur Etxezarretawho had been second on Thursday, set the seventh time on Friday, 54 hundredths behind the Norwegian.
Adur Etxezarreta
Source: Eitb
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