MILAN: Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen joined the Olympic greats on Wednesday by winning his third gold medal of the Milan-Cortina Games.

On the slopes in Bormio, Von Allmen was victorious in the super-G event, adding that gold to his titles in the downhill and the team combined.

Von Allmen entered the pantheon of Olympic male alpine skiing greats to have three events at one Games, alongside Austrian Toni Sailer, at the 1956 Winter Games, and France’s Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.

Croatia’s Janica Kostelic is the only woman to have achieved the feat, at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

Von Allmen hit speeds of 120km/h in the super-G, an event that combines the speed of downhill with the precise turns of giant slalom.

American Ryan Cochran-Siegle won silver in the event for a second successive Games while Switzerland’s defending world champion Marco Odermatt rounded out the podium, picking up a medal after his bitter disappointment at missing out in the downhill.Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday it will try to convince Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych to not wear a banned helmet that depicts victims of the war with Russia at the Games.

However, Heraskevych has already said he has no intention of backing down and he was wearing the helmet again in training at the Cortina Sliding Centre on Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s heats.

“We will contact him today, and we will reiterate the many, many opportunities that he has to express his grief,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said.

In the moguls competition, American freestyle skier Elizabeth Lemley won a surprise gold medal with two neat and quick runs in the Alpine town of Livigno.

Her victory put an end to 2022 champion Jakara Anthony’s bid to become the first Australian to successfully defend a title at a Winter Games.

Anthony, who has dominated the discipline for the last four years, led from silver medallist American Jaelin Kauf after the first run but wobbled out of line on her second to finish last. Kauf won her second silver with a score of 80.77 and France’s Perrine Laffont clinched bronze with 78 points.

France’s Julia Simon delivered a powerful skiing performance as she clincehd the women’s 15km individual biathlon gold to add individual gold to a mixed relay victory.

Published in Dawn, February 12th, 2026