Adur Etxezarreta went off the course in the supergiant

The Navarrese Adur Etxezarreta, The only participant of the Spanish delegation, he left the route in the Olympic super giant of the Beijing 2022 Games, played this Tuesday in Yanqing, where the Austrian made history Matthias Mayer, by becoming the second man to win three golds in alpine skiing in three different Olympic events, after the Norwegian Kjetil Andre Aamodt.

Today he faced the super giant with extra motivation which gave him the historic result yesterday but he has not had his best day. Adur accepts that in today’s test he is less well-trodden than in the descent and that it is more difficult for him, although before the race he also said that he hoped to be competitive.

The layout changed a bit and it left a little lower down, but the track conditions were similar. Adur has left with the number 42 to the demanding Yanqing track but has not been able to revalidate the sensations of yesterday’s race. In the first part of the track, he left the track so he skipped one of the gates.

The result leaves Etxezarreta a bitter taste although the 17th place in the descent in his Olympic debut is a great motivation for future events. He is now competing in the European Cup and the World Cup, although more focused on the former, and, of course, what he has done in the Games is an incentive to try to make that leap in quality. “If I continue skiing like this, little by little, the goal of achieving good results in the World Cup should be closer,” says Adur.

At the top of the table, the places of honor have been dominated today by Norwegians, Austrians and Americans. the norwegian alexander kilde he did not have his day in the descent but today he did have a very good descent in the supergiant, making some good first partials. With a time of 1: 20.36 he has been placed first very early, beating the French Alexis Pinturault (1:21.36). Later the German Romed Bauman (1:21.10) and also another Norwegian, Adrian Smiseth Sejersted (1:20.68) have been better than the Frenchman.

However, everything has blown up when going out on the track Matthias Mayer. The great Austrian skier has given a blow of authority to change the course of the test, showing all his quality in the last sector. He didn’t start too strong, he started quite fast and made some mistakes with his left leg, but he more than fixed it in the last part of the circuit, where he flew to stop the clock in the 1.19.94 and take the gold.

Seventeenth in relegation

The Navarrese Adur Etxezarreta finished in a meritorious seventeenth place this Monday in the descent – the queen event of alpine skiing – of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, which was won, on the ‘Rock’ track in Yanqing, by the Swiss Beat Feuz.

It is the best result ever achieved by a participant from the Spanish delegation.