Gold for ski star Brignone: The comeback of these Olympic Games

Of course, all stops are being pulled out. They fly before the medal ceremony in the finish area Jets with the Tricolore – green, white, red shoots out of the nozzles. Plus the anthem, everyone sings along. The whole thing happened again six minutes later, when Brignone was next with the gold medal Cornelia Hütter and Roman Miradoli is on the podium.

The international press had jumped on another comeback story before these Olympics. But Brignone has achieved something that many would not have thought possible two months ago.

After last season – in which she won crystal balls in the overall World Cup, downhill and giant slalom – she won one at the Italian championships in April multiple fractures of the head of the fibula and tibia drawn in. The coming season seemed over. The big goal of home Olympics has become a long way off for the big favorite.

Fairytale-like

But at the end of January she got in touch Giant slalom at Kronplatz impressively with a 6th place. For many, the fact that she won the gold medal in her first race in Cortina was a fairy tale that seemed too unrealistic to come true. But on Thursday it happened.

In addition to a bronze medal in Pyeongchang and bronze and silver from Beijing, there is also the gold medal from Cortina.