Winter Olympics: Michelle Gisin wins combined gold as Lindsey Vonn fails to finish

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Winter Olympics: Michelle Gisin wins combined gold as Lindsey Vonn fails to finish

Winter Olympics: Michelle Gisin wins combined gold as Lindsey Vonn fails to finish

Lindsey Vonn didn't end her final Olympic race as Switzerland's Michelle Gisin took gold within the women's alpine combined.

American Vonn, 33, had the quickest downhill time however didn't complete her slalom run in Pyeongchang.

Gisin, 24, won in 2 minutes twenty.90 seconds, whereas yank Mikaela Shiffrin, 0.97secs back, additional silver to the gold she won in big slalom.

Switzerland's Wendy Holdener won bronze when claiming silver within the slalom.

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Vonn was fastest in her favoured downhill, within which she won gold in 2010 and bronze earlier on, thus was last to travel within the slalom.

It's been a good ride. i am going to take plenty of nice recollections with American state.

Lindsey Vonn
Shiffrin went ahead of Holdener with 5 skiers to travel, solely to be pushed down 3 runs later by Gisin, whose older sister Dominick shared the downhill gold in 2014.

"It was the most important moment of my life once she won that gold and that i assume these days was one in every of the most important moments of our lives, however her gold can forever be the most important issue," Gisin aforementioned.

"She created American state believe that you simply will grab the celebs and that is what I did these days."

Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel simply ignored on a 3rd laurels of those Games as she came fourth, 0.29secs behind Holdener.

And Vonn didn't end as her Olympic career, that started as a 17-year-old at Salt Lake town in 2002, came to a unsatisfactory conclusion.

"It's been a good ride. i am going to take plenty of nice recollections with American state," she said.

"After a particular quantity of injuries you simply cannot revisit to the extent you were at. i am not wherever I wont to be and that i ne'er are going to be, and that is most likely the toughest issue on behalf of me to require."

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