Franjo von Allmen felt the run had not been perfect. At the finish in Bormio, he shrugged, wiggled his gloved hands as if to say meh and stuck out his tongue jokingly. Gold? Surely not. Maybe not even a medal. Seconds later, the scoreboard told a different story.
In a blazing 1:25.32, the 24-year-old Swiss captured the super-G title – his third gold at Milano Cortina. Just like that, Von Allmen joined two greats: Austria’s Toni Sailer (1956) and France’s Jean-Claude Killy (1968), the only other men to sweep three alpine events at a single Winter Olympics. Von Allmen opened his Games with downhill gold, then teamed up with Tanguy Nef to win the inaugural team combined event. Three races. Three golds. Five dizzying days.
