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\nAlice Robinson reacts in the finish area after competing in the women’s super-G event during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
\nPhoto: FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT \/ AFP\n<\/p>\n
New Zealand alpine skiier Alice Robinson’s hopes of securing a medal at the Super Giant Slalom finals have been dashed after a promising start to the season.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old was 14th to take on the slope in a line-up of 35 overnight at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. She placed 8th-equal with France’s Camille Cerutti after both secured a run-time of 1 minute and 24.44 seconds.<\/p>\n
Managing to compete the run was an achievement in itself, with 14 other competitors – including favourites like Germany’s Emma Aicher and Italy’s Sofia Goggia – failing to finish.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Federica Brignone sealed an astonishing comeback from career-threatening injury to win the gold on home snow.<\/p>\n
France’s Romane Miradoli took silver, 0.41 of a second slower, with Austria’s Cornelia Huetter third, according to provisional results.<\/p>\n
Known as the “Tiger” for her ferocious determination, Brignone, 35, had looked doubtful for the Games after a crash last April but fought back to fitness and produced one of her greatest runs on a foggy Olimpia delle Tofane piste.<\/p>\n
Robinson is competing in her third Olympics, having secured her first career win in the opening event of the season in St Moritz, followed by a second-place finish a week later in Val d’Is\u00e8re.<\/p>\n
She became New Zealand’s youngest-ever Winter Olympian when she attended the 2018 games in South Korea at the age of 16.<\/p>\n
– RNZ \/ Reuters<\/p>\n