And that makes three! After triumphing in the downhill, Franjo von Allmen added gold in the team combined and then in the super-G. The Bernese skier has thus secured his place in Olympic history. Until now, only two athletes had ever claimed three Alpine skiing golds at a single Games \u2014 the last being France\u2019s Jean\u2011Claude Killy back in 1968. Von Allmen is also the first skier to complete the downhill\/super\u2011G double, and the first Swiss athlete ever to win the super\u2011G.\n<\/p>\n
Swiss media also celebrated Mathilde Gremaud\u2019s victory, as she captured her second Olympic slopestyle title. She is now the first woman to successfully defend her crown in this highly technical and unpredictable discipline. Despite challenging circumstances \u2014 including an injury and the departure of her coach \u2014 Gremaud produced a run that experts described as \u201cone of the most impressive ever\u201d. With four Olympic medals to her name (two gold, one silver, one bronze), the Fribourg native now ranks among the most decorated freestyle skiers in history.<\/p>\n
Marco Odermatt, by contrast, has had a more mixed Games so far. After narrowly missing the downhill podium, he earned silver in the team combined and bronze in the super\u2011G. For many athletes, two medals would be an excellent result \u2014 but for the Nidwalden star, who arrived in Italy as the overwhelming favourite, the outcome has been somewhat underwhelming. Still, he has another chance to shine in Saturday\u2019s giant slalom.<\/p>\n
Switzerland also claimed an unexpected medal when Obwalden ski jumper Gregor Deschwanden won bronze on the 90m hill. After the first week of competition, the Swiss delegation counts seven medals (4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze). It\u2019s a solid showing, though still far below the 15 medals claimed at the previous Winter Games in Beijing (7 gold, 2 silver, 6 bronze).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And that makes three! After triumphing in the downhill, Franjo von Allmen added gold in the team combined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1822,1210,1211,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-6167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-alpine-skiing","9":"tag-beat-swiss-abroad","10":"tag-home-swiss-abroad","11":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}