• Arnaud
Bovolenta and Jonathan Midol complete sweep
• Brady
Leman of Canada falls in final
Right to left: JF Chapuis, Arnaud Bovolenta, Jonathan Midol of France and Brady Leman of Canada make a jump in the ski-cross final. Photo: Getty Images |
France completed
its first sweep of a Winter Olympics podium on Thursday, taking all three
medals in the men’s ski cross.
The gold
medal winner, Jean-Frédéric Chapuis, lead for most of the race and Arnaud
Bovolenta and Jonathan Midol stayed close behind at the Rosa Khutor Extreme
Park.
Canada’s
Brady Leman managed short stints in third and second place before the Frenchmen
edged him out. He fell shortly after. Each ski-cross race has four skiers
racing side-by-side over jumps and turns through several qualification rounds.
“Two good
friends. I can’t explain how it feels,” Midol told the Associated Press. “We
had a dream to make the podium with friends. The Olympic Games, three French on
the podium is incredible.”
The last
time France swept an Olympic podium was at the 1924 Paris Summer Games. This is
the sixth podium sweep at the Sochi Olympics.
Ardaud Bovolenta (blue), Jean Frederic Chapuis (green) and Jonathan Midol (yellow). Photograph: Jussi Nukari/Rex |
The
favorite, Victor Oehling Norberg of Sweden, failed to make it past the
quarterfinals, despite coming into the event with the top ranking this World
Cup season. David Duncan of Canada and Andreas Matt of Austria, ranked second
and third in this season’s standings, also failed to get past the
quarterfinals.
In the
quarterfinal, a huge crash on the final jump caused a photo finish as threeskiers tumbled over the finish line, including Russia’s Egor Korotkov, who took
the second qualifying spot. Norberg had been in the lead before the fall, but
failed to qualify for the semi-finals in the three-man photo finish.
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