Milan Cortina, McGrath loses gold in the slalom and runs away into the woods. What happened at the Olympics

Milan Cortina, golden slalom for Meillard

What happened at the Olympics? Swiss Loic Meillard won the gold medal in the men’s slalom todayat the end of two sensational heats. Behind him the Austrian Fabio Gstrein, silver medalist, and the Norwegian Henti Kristoffersen. A race that ended with the exit of the favorite Atle Lie McGrath, dominator of the first heat.

Incredible scene in the Bormio slalom

Atle Lie McGrath was in the lead, but got stuck in the second heat and thus had to give up the gold.

There is a lot of anger: he throws a stick, then takes off his skis, gets out of the nets, walks into the fresh snow and goes to cry at the edge of the… pic.twitter.com/6VuOwxiv1t

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After the complicated morning, which had seen dozens of athletes go out due to heavy snow (including the Olympic giant slalom champion, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen), McGrath started in the lead ahead of the Swiss Loic Meillard (+0.59) and the Austrian Fabio Gstrein (+0.94).

Meillard, second to last to go down, was however phenomenal and put everyone behind with a great performance (1:53.61 overall time, 56.73+56.88). For McGrath, considerable tension poorly managed. Until the fork. An ending to forget for his Olympics.