Dominique Gisin (left) and Tina Maze stand on the podium at the Women’s Alpine Skiing. (AFP)
Swiss outsider Dominique Gisin and Slovenian Tina Maze finished in a dead heat as an Alpine skiing gold medal was shared for the first time in Winter Olympics history in a dramatic women’s downhill.
Swiss racer Gisin, wearing bib number eight, was first to clock 1min 41.57sec down the icy 2.7km-long course and in brilliant sunshine it looked to have been enough for outright victory. But Gisin, who had not won a World Cup downhill race since 2009 and whose best finish in the downhill this season was seventh, had not counted on Maze, the 2013 super-G world champion and proven big-stage performer.