Fog plays a part in Women’s Giant Slalom results

The fog that plagued the first run of the giant slalom and delayed the second run until today returned, giving Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany the edge she needed to win the gold medal.  You wouldn’t normally think finishing 6^th in the first run would be an advantage, but it enabled her to ski before the fog got thick enough to hinder. This is a stellar win for Rebensburg who has never won a senior-level race.

Tina Maze of Slovenia finished a close second for silver. Elizabeth Gorgl of Austria, who had the fastest time on the 1^st run, won bronze.

American Julia Mancuzo, the defending champ, had a bad run yesterday, finishing 18^th.  She had the 3^rd fastest run today, but she would have had to fly down the mountain in order to make up for her poor 1^st run, so she came in 10^th.

I wonder what the results would have been without that fog? It’s a roll of the dice when there’s bad weather, you never know who will be up and how it will affect them. Sometimes it doesn’t seem “fair” but that is the risk you run with an outdoor sport.