Brazil's Braathen wins South America's first ever Winter Olympic gold
Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen held his nerve to win the men's Alpine skiing giant slalom in Bormio on Saturday for South America's first-ever gold in the Winter Olympics.The Norwegian-born Braathen, fastest down in the first leg, was composure personified in the second to win in an aggregate time of 2 minutes, 25 seconds.Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, already a winner of team combined silver and super-G bronze, claimed a second silver, at 0.58 seconds back, having been the only skier to have got within a second of the Brazilian in the opening run.
