MEDALS TABLE

where I’ve finished first or second in the first run and then I ski slower because I’m trying to protect something.

“The Olympics is not about protecting the lead, it’s about putting your best on the line and you can see what happens. It was incredible to take so much risk in that second run but it’s something I’m trying to do more and more with the World Cup racing.”

Svindal in the Super G and Shiffrin in the slalom could yet be crowned king and queen again today, in what would be another first in terms of consecutive Olympic plunder. You wait 70 years for history to be made, then the very next day…