Hector had a fantastic 2022 with the Olympic gold as the icing on the cake.
But coming to the start of the WC with the Olympic gold on his resume did not help one bit.
In the first run, she was a whopping 96 hundredths behind Mikaela Shiffrin and complained that she was a coward in the parts of the hill that were in the shade.
- When I got into the shadow, I lose a lot of self-confidence.
Suddenly you can't see anything and then it gets dark.
That's how it is sometimes, but when you feel tough, you push on anyway.
I was a little shocked that I reacted like that today, Hector told SVT Sport.
In the second race, the Swede did not want to blame the shadow, but had no direct answers as to why it went so badly.
- I rode badly, it's like that sometimes, she told Viaplay.
- In the turn after the long turn, I completely mistimed and all speed died, explains Hector.
Shiffrin's Revenge
The fight for the medals became dramatic.
Tessa Worley, the home skater, looked to be a threat for the noblest of medals.
As the penultimate rider in the second run, she was in the lead when she left in the lower section.
That meant that the Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel secured a medal.
And when Mikaela Shiffrin took the lead it was a battle against the clock and against leading Italian Federica Brignone.
Shiffrin led by 12 hundredths at the start and at the finish she still had exactly the same difference and could hardly believe her eyes when the gold was secured.
A real revenge after the failures at the Olympics last year.