Erik Guay wins downhill in Val Gardena, eighth Werner Heel

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Erik Guay back to success in the World Cup after more than three and a half years and almost three years of specialty iridescent gold wins the men's downhill in Val Gardena.

Saturday 21 December 2013 5 minutes reading time

The Canadian, third last year on the Saslong on which he had racked up four podiums in downhill and super-G without ever winning, it was a fast success in the Cup from March 16, 2010 in Garmisc-Partenkirchen, a town in which he won three of his four Total races including the world title in 2011. Today he took his fourth victory in the cup catching up on the top, from the camel humps on he changed gears, wrote off the best of the many ripples Ciaslat a few times so lumpy and came like a bullet on the final schuss past practically sprint finally found the Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud, according to 12 cents, and the Frenchman Johan Clarey, third at 24. Jansrud did not rise from third place on the podium in downhill in Beaver Creek, 30 November 2012, the only finished in the top three Clarey was always another third place in Val Gardena December 19, 2009 and 2011 was in the lead before the race was canceled due to the strong wind, the same Guay was missing in the first three positions in the second place in the downhill in KitzbÃ¼hel last January 26. It is worth mentioning that the three of the podium today are back this winter from injuries suffered last season or last summer. Fourth of the overall points leader Aksel Lund Svindal only 5 cents from Clarey, Norwegian gets his best result on the Saslong downhill and increases his lead in the overall standings to 175 points over Marcel Hirscher and also controls the list of specialties with 53 on Guay lengths but without an error entry to the curve of the lake probably would have won. Fifth the American Bode Miller is back among the top ten specialties from fourth place on 11 February 2012 in Sochi, the sixth Swiss Patrick KÃ¼ng, fast on top (only Jansrud in front of him), but then gradually sucked by other , seventh and ninth Canadians Manuel Osborne-Paradis and Jan Hudec, completed the top ten in eighth and tenth place respectively blues Werner Heel and Peter Fill. No Austrian in the top ten which is something amazing, a real humiliation for a country that the descent of the Val Gardena'' has won 17 times, although the last'' five years ago, and that makes down a religion and surprised that the same thing has happened to last year, the best in the Wunderteam was Max Franz, eleventh ahead of fellow countryman Georg Streitberger. Out of last year's winner, the American Steven Nyman. We will update you on the final placings of the other blue. Tomorrow closing the weekend with a very classic and beautiful on the Gran Risa giant Alta Badia.

Max Valle

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