Brazilian ski star inspires with a historical podium in Beaver Creek!

Brazilian ski star inspires with a historical podium in Beaver Creek!

In a historical competition on Sunday in the giant slalom of Beaver Creek, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen from Brazil caused a sensation. The 24-year-old sensationally reached second place and thus celebrated the first podium of a Brazilian athlete in the Alpine World Cup. "It is indescribable how it feels. Something that you love to leave behind and then come back with a different perspective that also helped me," said the technology specialist after his triumphal appearance, which was recognized with great applause from greats like Alexis Pinturault and Nicole Schmidhofer, how krone.at reported.

the victory, however, won the 35-year-old Marco Tumler, who crossed the finish line with an impressive best time in the second round and finally secured his first victory after 124 World Cup operations. Tumler, who already reached his first podium in Beaver Creek in 2018, left the problems of the favorite Marco Odermatt behind, who disappointed with eighth place in the first run and left early in the final. Tumler won with a wafer-thin lead of 0.12 seconds against Braathen, who delivered a “trip from the picture book” with his run, according to Eurosport expert Fritz Dopfer, such as Eurosport holds.

With this success, Braathen also took the lead in the giant slalom World Cup with a total of 130 points and has only one point ahead of his former team-mate Alexander Steen Olsen from Norway. In the meantime, the German Alexander Schmid also showed a strong performance as the best German participant and ended up in twelfth place. For Schmid, this was a promising appearance in which he celebrated the return to the world leader after he was plagued by injuries in the past.