Olympic champion Lucas Pinheiro Braathen added the World Cup giant slalom season title on Tuesday in a stunning campaign for the Brazilian skier.
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Olympic champion Lucas Pinheiro Braathen added the World Cup giant slalom season title on Tuesday in a stunning campaign for the Brazilian skier.
Racing on the slope where he grew up, the Norway-born star protected his first-run lead to finish 0.58 seconds ahead of Loic Meillard, who would have taken the season-long title had Pinheiro Braathen failed to finish.
Pinheiro Braathen won the season-long slalom title in 2023 when skiing for Norway, before his split months later with the national ski federation in a dispute over sponsorship. That pushed him toward competing for his mother’s home nation.
At the start of racing on Tuesday, Swiss superstar Marco Odermatt led the giant slalom standings but he failed to complete his first run.
After giving Brazil its first World Cup alpine victory and South America’s first Olympic alpine gold medal, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen became the first Brazilian to win a crystal globe, after winning the final giant slalom race of the season in Lillehammer, Norway.
With files from CBC Sports
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