Olympics 2018: Matthias Mayer rebounds from downhill crash to win super-G

A day after a horrific crash in the downhill, Matthias Mayer of Austria rebounded to win gold in the men’s super-G on Thursday night at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Mayer’s win ended a string of four consecutive super-G Olympic gold medals for Norway.

Mayer, who won gold in the downhill in the 2014 Olympics at Sochi, was the favorite to repeat on Wednesday but instead crashed into a camera operator. He won on Thursday with a time of 1:24.44, earning the first super-G gold for Austria since Hermann Maier in 1998.

Kjetil Jansrud, who won the super-G in Sochi and placed second in the downhill on Wednesday, held the lead in Thursday’s super-G before he was passed by Mayer and silver medalist Beat Feuz of Switzerland.

It was the second medal of the 2018 Games for both Jansrud and Feuz, who finished second and third, respectively, in the downhill.

Norway captured gold in the super-G in the previous four Winter Olympics, with Kjetil Andre Aamodt winning in 2002 and 2006, followed by Aksel Lund Svindal in 2010, then Jansrud in 2014.