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Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin, long weakened by a virus, won her second consecutive Olympic title in the Alpine combined on Thursday, while American Mikaela Shiffrin experienced another elimination and will leave Beijing without an individual medal.

Cautious in the morning on the descent, of which she only set the 12th fastest time, Gisin flew over the slalom round to win the gold with 1 sec 05 ahead of her compatriot Wendy Holdener, and 1 sec 85 over Italian Federica Brignone.

Already crowned in the queen discipline of versatile skiers at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics, the Swiss joins in history the Croatian Janica Kostelic, who had achieved the same double in combined (2002, 2006), and the German Maria Riesch (2010 , 2014).

Exhausted all last season by mononucleosis, Gisin further embellishes the incredible Swiss harvest in alpine skiing, with a fifth title (gold in the men’s and women’s downhills, the women’s super-G and the men’s giant), which no other nation had never done.

Far from this new Swiss demonstration, Mikaela Shiffrin continues her nightmarish Games, with an exit from the track after about ten gates in the slalom round yet drawn by her coach, Mike Day.

She had already been eliminated in the first round of the giant, in which she had won gold at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, then in the slalom, where she had been crowned at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

The champion with three big globes (2017, 2018, 2019) and 73 World Cup successes, a prodigy of regularity so far, has been very tested for two years, with the accidental death of her father then recurring back pain.

But the Colorado skier seemed to have returned to her best level and is leading the race for the big globe, even if she had to give up slalom supremacy to Slovak Petra Vlhova.