Olympics-Alpine skiing-Austria’s Mayer claims historic gold in men’s super-G
Matthias Mayer of Austria became the first man to win a gold medal in Alpine skiing at three consecutive Olympic Games after taking first place in the super-G event at the Beijing Games on Tuesday. Mayer, who won gold in downhill in Sochi in 2014 and super-G in Pyeongchang four years ago, clocked a time of 1:19.94, with American Ryan Cochran-Siegle just four hundredths of a second behind him. Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the top ranked skier in both speed disciplines, earned a bronze medal, his first in an Olympics, but still a less than ideal result after his fifth place finish in downhill.0
