Svindal wins super-combined
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February 15, 2011, Tuesday
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AKSEL Lund Svindal of Norway retained his super-combined world championship title yesterday, while Christof Innerhofer of Italy earned his third medal in three races by taking silver.
Svindal led comfortably after the downhill portion and hung on on a steep slalom course on the Gudiberg slope in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, to stay ahead.
Innerhofer, with one World Cup victory coming into the championships, now has the full range of medals here. He won gold in the super-G and bronze in the downhill.
Another Italian, Peter Fill, captured a surprise bronze after benefiting from the mistakes of others.
While the top favorite skipped the race altogether, several others flopped in the slalom leg.
Olympic champion Bode Miller's slalom run was finished before the second gate and his American teammate Ted Ligety missed a gate.
Olympic bronze medalist Silvan Zurbriggen and Beat Feuz of Switzerland, second after the downhill portion, both failed to finish the slalom run and Benjamin Raich of Austria could not make up his big deficit from the downhill run and had to settle for fourth.
Second gate
Miller sat too far back on his skis and was catapulted into the air going into the second gate, landing on his back. Just before him, Ligety had ended his run prematurely.
Innerhofer was third after the downhill and the Italian team lodged an official protest, believing there was a timing error on his run. It was rejected and the team was told that the intermediate times were not accurate, but that the overall time was correct.
Ivica Kostelic of Croatia, who swept all three World Cup super-combined races this season and is the Olympic silver medalist in the event, decided to take a break from the worlds to rest on the Adriatic coast and skipped the race. He will return for the giant slalom and slalom events.
Kostelic is eager to win the overall World Cup title for the first time and believes getting some rest will help him protect his big lead in the races coming up after the championships.
Svindal used new boots and new skis in the downhill. The Norwegian crashed into the barrier in the finish area in Saturday's downhill and hit his head and hurt his knee.
The knee remains swollen, Svindal said after the downhill.
His winning time for the two runs was 2 minutes, 54.41 seconds. Innerhofer was 1.01 seconds behind and Fill was 1.90 seconds off the pace.
Svindal led comfortably after the downhill portion and hung on on a steep slalom course on the Gudiberg slope in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, to stay ahead.
Innerhofer, with one World Cup victory coming into the championships, now has the full range of medals here. He won gold in the super-G and bronze in the downhill.
Another Italian, Peter Fill, captured a surprise bronze after benefiting from the mistakes of others.
While the top favorite skipped the race altogether, several others flopped in the slalom leg.
Olympic champion Bode Miller's slalom run was finished before the second gate and his American teammate Ted Ligety missed a gate.
Olympic bronze medalist Silvan Zurbriggen and Beat Feuz of Switzerland, second after the downhill portion, both failed to finish the slalom run and Benjamin Raich of Austria could not make up his big deficit from the downhill run and had to settle for fourth.
Second gate
Miller sat too far back on his skis and was catapulted into the air going into the second gate, landing on his back. Just before him, Ligety had ended his run prematurely.
Innerhofer was third after the downhill and the Italian team lodged an official protest, believing there was a timing error on his run. It was rejected and the team was told that the intermediate times were not accurate, but that the overall time was correct.
Ivica Kostelic of Croatia, who swept all three World Cup super-combined races this season and is the Olympic silver medalist in the event, decided to take a break from the worlds to rest on the Adriatic coast and skipped the race. He will return for the giant slalom and slalom events.
Kostelic is eager to win the overall World Cup title for the first time and believes getting some rest will help him protect his big lead in the races coming up after the championships.
Svindal used new boots and new skis in the downhill. The Norwegian crashed into the barrier in the finish area in Saturday's downhill and hit his head and hurt his knee.
The knee remains swollen, Svindal said after the downhill.
His winning time for the two runs was 2 minutes, 54.41 seconds. Innerhofer was 1.01 seconds behind and Fill was 1.90 seconds off the pace.
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