Bormio, Italy –
Brazil’s Lucas Pinheiro Braathen held his nerve to win the men’s Alpine skiing giant slalom in Bormio on Saturday for South America’s first-ever gold in the Winter Olympics.
The Norwegian-born Braathen, fastest down in the first leg, was composure personified in the second to win in an aggregate time of 2 minutes, 25 seconds.
Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt, already a winner of team combined silver and super-G bronze, claimed a second silver, at 0.58 seconds back, having been the only skier to have got within a second of the Brazilian in the opening run.
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