Romane Miradoli won the silver medal on Thursday in the super-G at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games, the first for the French women's alpine ski team since 2002. She finished behind the Italian Federica Brignone, victorious ten months after a double fracture of the tibia-fibula of her left leg.
Published on: 02/12/2026 - 1:49 p.m. Modified on: 02/13/2026 - 10:54 a.m.
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This is the first French Olympic medal for a French alpine skier in more than 20 years. Romane Miradoli won the silver medal on Thursday February 12 in the super-G at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games, France's eighth medal since the start of the competition.
The 31-year-old Tricolor was beaten (+ 0''41) by the Italian Federica Brignone (1'23''41), Olympic champion ten months after a serious injury, while the Austrian Cornelia Hütter took bronze (+ 0''52), according to the provisional results.
No French alpine skier has won an Olympic medal since Laure Pequegnot's silver in the 2002 Salt Lake City slalom.
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“I really don't have words, it's incredible. It's true that I dreamed of it, but start dreaming and manage to do what it takes on skis to get to the bottom with that…” she reacted on France TV.
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"Before the descent, I wanted to go home because it wasn't going well at all and there, I managed to find what I needed to put on a sleeve like that. It's magical."
The resounding comeback of Federica Brignone
Sixteenth in the downhill on Sunday then eliminated from the team combined on Tuesday after Marie Lamure's slalom exit from the track, Romane Miradoli recorded her first medal during a major international competition.
In the World Cup, she has five individual podiums, including a victory during the super-G in Lenzerheide (Switzerland) in 2022. In December, she took second place in that of Saint-Moritz (Switzerland).
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On the top step of the podium, Federica Brignone made a resounding comeback, ten months after suffering multiple fractures of her left leg and a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee during the Italian championships.
The 35-year-old Transalpine only resumed skiing at the end of November and then competed on January 20, in Kronplatz (Italy), with an already impressive sixth place in giant slalom.
She therefore won her first Olympic coronation in her fourth race since her resumption, also after an 18th place in the super-G in Crans-Montana (Switzerland) and 10th place in the Olympic downhill on Sunday.
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One of the standard bearers of the Italian delegation during the opening ceremony had already won bronze and silver in giant slalom, respectively in 2018 and 2022, as well as bronze in the alpine combined in 2022.
With Reuters
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