Clement Noel wins Olympic slalom gold for France

Noel bags France’s 1st alpine skiing gold of Beijing Olympics, becomes only 3rd French men’s slalom Olympic champion

By Selcuk Bugra Gokalp

ANKARA (AA) – Clement Noel won France’s first alpine skiing gold medal at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.

Noel finished the men’s slalom with a combined total of 1 minute, 44.09 seconds to bag his first-ever Olympic gold.

Austria’s Johannes Strolz took silver medal with a time of 1:44.70, followed by Sebastian Foss-Solevag of Norway at 1:44.79.

Noel is now only the third French men’s slalom Olympic champion after Jean-Claude Killy in 1968 and Jean-Pierre Vidal in 2002.

The 24-year-old also became France’s first Olympic champion in alpine skiing since Antoine Deneriaz bagged gold in the men’s downhill in 2006.

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