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Victory for two in the men's downhill World Cup Kvitfjell on track Olympiabakken considerably shortened due to poor visibility.
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They won the Austrian Georg Streitberger the new champions and Olympic super-G, the Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud, for both is the first success in the Cup downhill since Streitberger had won two Super-G, but the last more than three years ago, while Jansrud, in addition to the five circles of Sochi, had just won one in 2012 in Kvitfjell. First podium for the American Travis Ganong, 12 cents in the third, fourth and fifth Canadian Erik Guay Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal who takes home his eighth cup of specialty of his career, the second downhill plus confirming than last year, because in the end the only two races that could still ensnare is the Austrian Hannes Reichelt but due to herniated disc ended the season prematurely.
This, together with that of the two winners, the only news of note of a race absent of technical content and showmanship and tomorrow are likely to emerge even a drop in the two heats. Sixth, for the third time in his career, French Guillermo Fayed, seventh tie the Austrians Romed Baumann and Georg Striedinger, the ninth best blues, Silvano Varettoni, that since this track threatened to end his career on a major injury is always good around here (last year he was fifth), in tenth place another tie between the South Tyrolean Dominik Paris and the Swiss Dider Defago. Olympic champion Matthias Mayer specialty has managed to slip a stick in the middle of the ski and let it slip from his hand. We will update you on the final placings of the other blue.
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