Already crowned at these Cortina World Championships, Mathieu Faivre is now double world champion.
The French skier won the most precious metal this Friday by winning the giant.
Fourth after Pinturault's first run at 0.58 seconds, he took the gold medal thanks to a huge second run and the fall of Pinturault in this last run.
A great victory after his title of world champion on the parallel last Tuesday.
Luca de Aliprandini took second place 0.63 seconds behind the Frenchman and Austrian Marco Schwarz completed the podium.
After a first round which he had outrageously dominated, Pinturault had only to finish the job in the second round, later in the afternoon.
It must be said that in the morning, he had relegated his closest competitor, the Italian Luca de Aliprandini to 0.4 seconds and the German Alexander Schmid to 0.54 seconds, an eternity.
Unfortunately, the Courchevel skier lost his balance at the start of the second round and said goodbye to his hopes for the title.
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