Sara Hector is in great shape.
The Swede took Olympic gold in the giant slalom the day before yesterday, and looked to follow it up with a surprising medal in her "second discipline" slalom - where she has never been better than fifth in the World Cup.
Superstart of others
Hector impressed a lot in the first run, when she finished third, only twelve hundredths behind the leading German Lena Dürr, who went first of all in the first run.
When she set out from the start in the second run, she had six tenths of a credit on Slovak Petra Vlhova.
She increased by 28 hundredths to the first interval, and had almost all left to the second - but with just under a third left, she branched out.
Thus, the dream of a second Olympic medal was gone.
- Yeah, that kind of thing happens.
The phase, she said as she came down from the hill.
Swenn Larsson went up in second
The gold surprisingly went to the Slovak Petra Vlhova, who was only eight after the first run.
For the other Swedish star, Anna Swenn Larsson, things went worse.
Swenn Larsson, who had a difficult season but was on the podium as recently as a month ago in Kranjska Gora, was eleven after the first run and then went up to a ninth place in the second.
The slalom giant of recent years Mikaela Shiffrin went out early in the first run.