Axel May
3:18 p.m., February 07, 2022
Johan Clarey won the silver medal in the downhill race at the Winter Olympics on Monday morning. A feat given his age: 41 years old. In addition to the medal, the French skier also won the record for the oldest athlete to stand on a podium in all categories of alpine skiing.
In addition to a medal, he set a record. Johan Clarey, 41, won the silver medal on Monday morning in the downhill event at the Beijing Olympics. He becomes the oldest athlete to stand on an Olympic podium, all disciplines of alpine skiing combined. The previous record dated from the other American star of alpine skiing, Bode Miller, bronze medalist in Sochi in 2014. The American was then 36 years old.
“I’m surrounded by super champions, so it’s fantastic”
“Jo”, also nicknamed “uncle” or “the old man” by his teammates, confided in the Eurosport microphone: “Everyone tells me: ‘it’s great, at 41’. But at 41, it’s difficult to remobilize every day. Yesterday I left a lot of energy. This morning I was quite tired, but I managed to remobilize myself a minute before the start, I was just good and ready to do the job I knew I had a good run but downhill you never know [si on va faire] first, second, third or even tenth. Today was a fairly regular race. I’m surrounded by super champions on the podium, so it’s fantastic.”
Johan Clarey also holds another record: he is the fastest man in the World Cup. In 2013, in Switzerland, it had reached a top speed recorded at 162 km/h.
Source: Europe1
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