Skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen’s all-out style: A gold for Brazil in giant slalom, then slalom fall

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BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Lucas Pinheiro Braathen wouldn’t change the way he was flying through the course in Monday’s Olympic slalom . Sure, he fell in the first run. Sure, it ended any hopes of another medal. But that charge, that no-holding-back approach from the Brazilian ski racer also led him to a gold two days before in the giant slalom at the Milan Cortina Games . It was a gold that gave South America its first medal at a Winter Games. A gold that had Brazilians celebrating back home and

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