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Ladies’ downhill, 11 a.m., Redtail Finish Stadium, Beaver Creek.

Men’s downhill training, 1:30 p.m., Redtail Finish Stadium, Beaver Creek.

Medals Ceremony, 6:30 p.m., Championships Plaza (Solaris), Vail.

Men’s downhill Public Bib Draw, following Medals Ceremony, Championships Plaza (Solaris), Vail.

American Authors free concert, 7 p.m., following Public Bib Draw, Championships Plaza (Solaris), Vail.

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Silencing the critics, Reichelt wins Salzburg racers feeling quite at home

By Chris Freud cfrued@vaildaily.com

BEAVER CREEK — Welcome to Salzburg Creek, home of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.

The Austrian province of just 580,000 people is having a really good Worlds so far here at Beaver Creek. Hannes Reichelt, born in Altenmarkt im Pongau, Salzburg, Austria, captured men’s super-G gold on Thursday at Beaver Creek, just two days after teammate Anna Fenninger, also born in the Salzburg province, won the women’s super-G here.

Canadian Dustin Cook was a surprise second, finishing 11-hundredths off Reichelt’s pace, followed by France’s Adrien Theaux in third.

Salzburg, a province of Austria with a population of 580,000, is in no way a stranger to skiing prominence. Also from area, whose capital is the eponymous city, are such luminaries as Hermann Maier, the skiing legend who won gold in both the super-G and downhill when Worlds were here last in 1999, and Annemarie Moser-Proell, who held the women’s World Cup record for career victories until American Lindsey Vonn broke that mark last month, and, of course, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

“I think the local work to getting ski racers up is maybe better than in the other parts in Austria,” said the newly crowned champ. “But it’s also that the World Cup (has events nearby). I think they make a good job, but they also have problems with the money, I heard.”

Thursday’s performance should help the coffers.

QUIET, PLEASE Reichelt is no stranger to success on the World Cup circuit with nine career wins, three of which had been at Beaver Creek, and 31 podiums, but had never won at Worlds, though this is his sixth appearance at the biennial event. His only medal at the Championships was a super-G silver in Garmisch, Germany, in 2011.

And in Austria, where skiing is followed with religious fervor, Reichelt’s lack of medals at Worlds and the Olympics — he was injured in 2014 — has not gone unnoticed. (The scrutiny is somewhat akin this state’s obsession with Peyton Manning’s health and whether he will return to the Broncos for next season.)

“Some of the media guys said, “OK, Reichelt is at the big events; he has problems to ski fast,” Reichelt said. “I’m happy about that result today so those guys are now quiet. Here it was really tough. I was one of the favorites and the pressure from outside was big, but the pressure from my side was bigger. To repeat the victory from December was tough. It makes me very happy to do this.”

Reichelt, 35, is the oldest gold medalist in Worlds history. He is also the first Austrian to win the men’s super-G at Worlds since Stephan Eberharter did so in 2003 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. And Austria has

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Hannes Reichelt charges to victory Thursday in the men’s super-G during the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek. Reichelt secured a gold medal with a time of 1 minute, 15.68 seconds. already matched its gold-medal total, two, at Worlds from 2013 (men’s slalom and the Nations Team Event), when they were on home snow in Schladming. Perhaps, Austria is exacting some revenge after the Americans won the most gold medals in 2013?

“I think the men’s team is really strong in Austria at the moment especially in downhill and super-G,” Reichelt said. “The U.S. guys stole our show in Schladming, so we’re trying to do the same here in the U.S. I think the U.S guys will fight back. That makes the sport so interesting.”

With Theaux on the hot seat at the time, Reichelt used his intimate knowledge of Birds of Prey — this was his 27th start on this course — to perfection. He was in green numbers all the way, though he was nervous at the start.

“On this slope, it’s easy for me to be fast,” Reichelt said “But on the start, I was really nervous. But before 10 seconds I started, I said to me, ‘OK, ski aggressive and don’t say to you in the finish that I didn’t do anything what I can to make a good result here.’”

QUIET PLEASE, PART II Cook gave Reichelt a scare late, racing No. 28. He came within 11-hundredths of Reichelt.

Regardless of the color of the medal, Thursday was unquestionably the greatest day of Cook’s skiing career. Not only had the 25-year-old Canadian never been on World Cup podium in his career, he had never been in a top 10. Cook, who turns 26 next week, had never finished higher than 12th twice (super-Gs here and in Val

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Gardena, Italy, earlier this season.)

“I’ve been skiing really fast all year, fast in training for too many years,” Cook said.

“This year, I’ve had good results, really good splits. For me, it’s a culmination of a lot of years. Nobody in Europe knows who I am. I know that I’m capable of this, for sure.”

While hockey is the national pastime north of the border, Canada’s recent struggles on the snow with Erik Guay and Jan Hudec injured had not escaped notice. The Vancouver Sun had a story, “Men’s team in a downhill spiral; Injuries to stars, lack of funding leaves little hope for optimism,” in Sunday’s edition.

“We read that article and had a good laugh at it,” Cook said.

Canada’s Dustin Cook shows his excitement at the finish line of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships men’s super-G race after finishing in second on Thursday at Beaver Creek. Cook had never finished higher than 12th in a World Cup race.

Cook has a bit of a local tie. His significant other is Edwards’ Abby Ghent, who is on the U.S. Ski Team.

THEAUX RETURNS TO THE PODIUM Frenchman Theaux also has Beaver Creek connection. His first podium was at Beaver Creek, a silver in super-G on Dec. 4, 2010.

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Ligety leads American team in ninth place Miller crashes; done for Worlds

By Shauna Farnell Special to the Daily

BEAVER CREEK — American racers had an eventful day in the men’s FIS Alpine World Ski Championships super-G race on Thursday, which kicked off with a moment of silence for U.S. Ski Team development athletes Ronnie Berlack and Bryce Astle, who were killed in an avalanche in Soelden, Austria, last month.

By race time, the snow and wind from earlier in the week was replaced with 45-degree temperatures and bright sun.

While defending super-G champion Ted Ligety had the best finish of the U.S. contingent in ninth place, the big story of the day, typical whenever this man is in the start house, was Bode Miller.

BODE BLOWS OUT Competing in his first race since back surgery in November, during which pieces of cartilage resembling Lego pieces were extracted from his back, the 37-year-old New Hampshire native, in typical fashion, had everyone’s lower jaw hanging during his run.

Starting No. 9, Miller, who had only done downhill training runs on the World Cup in January before announcing his start in the World Championships, was charging down the Birds of Prey course — considered by many racers to be the most difficult super-G on the World Cup tour — with a solid lead. He was ahead by 0.56 seconds at the second split, and going into the Abyss, the dark, flat section of the course, he still held a 0.12-second lead.

It was then that he hooked his left arm on a gate, which stripped the pole out of his hand and spun him around. He hit the snow hard with his head and back and slid several hundred feet. He then skied to the bottom by his own power but had a massive gash on his right calf, apparently from slicing it on his ski.

“He had an amazing run,” said U.S. teammate Travis Ganong, who was another medal hopeful coming into Thursday’s race but took an odd line near Pumphouse and missed a gate. “It was good to see him push it. That’s the first run I’ve seen him push all year. He was right in there. When I talked to him after the run he said his whole body was numb and everything hurt. His back is definitely not feeling well. He said he had to get like a hundred stitches in his calf. I hope the best for him.”

At 6 p.m. on Thursday, the U.S. Ski Team sent out a release, saying that Miller had torn a hamstring tendon and was withdrawing from the rest of the Championships.

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Ted Ligety stays low through a turn after making his way past the Harrier Jump during the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships super-G race on Thursday in Beaver Creek. Ligety finished ninth with a time of 1 minute, 16.38 seconds.

According to the statement, “Miller underwent successful surgery at Vail Valley Medical Center with Dr. Randy Viola and Dr. Tom Hackett.”

TEDDY READY Ligety, who, due to his defending title status, the team had to thank for its five starting spots in Thursday’s race, was the only American happy with his race. Ligety’s ninthplace finish was 0.70 seconds off of Austrian Hannes Reichelt’s winning time, but the Park City, Utah, racer actually held the lead by 0.04 seconds at the first split.

“I felt like I skied pretty well,” Ligety said. “I was really good on the top section which is the steeper, more technical side of things.

With it snowing so much over the last couple of days, those flat sections were definitely really soft and when I weigh 30 pounds less than most of my competitors, especially the more speed-oriented guys, I’m going to pay huge there.”

The other Americans, twotime Olympic super-G medalist Andrew Weibrecht and downhill specialist Steven Nyman, had some technical issues on-course and also lost speed during their runs, tying for 20th place, 1.44 seconds off of the win.

Weibrecht, who came into the race with an impressive fifthplace result in the Kitzbuehel,

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American skier Andrew Weibrecht focuses downhill during the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships men’s super-G in Beaver Creek on Thursday. Weibrecht tied for 20th with teammate Steve Nyman.

Austria, super-G, caught an edge at the top of the course, scrubbing some speed and then made up more than a half a second before again catching his skis at the bottom of the course.

“If I was to do it again, I would

dull them out a little bit, especially my tails. I was really getting gripped and pushed by the tail of my ski,” Weibrecht said. “But there’s no way to predict that perfectly every time. You gotta go hard and give it your best shot. This was

a little disappointing today.”

Nyman, who’s had a tremendous comeback season on the World Cup downhill circuit, beginning with his third-place

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What Achilles tear? Svindal looking great Norwegian returns and finishes sixth

By Melanie Wong mwong@vaildaily.com

BEAVER CREEK — The way Aksel Lund Svindal skied at the World Championships super-G, it was hard to believe that the downhill champ and Olympic medalist had recently been off the snow for three months.

Svindal, who tore his Achilles tendon in October while kicking a soccer ball around, was not expected to return to competition in time for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, much less post a time in the top 10. He skied to a sixth-place finish in Thursday’s technical super-G, just 13 hundredths of a second short of a podium spot.

According to the Norwegian, he returned to the snow in mid-January and only began doing race training on Jan. 26.

“I’m really happy,” he said after the super-G, where despite a bobble near the beginning of the course, he steadily gained time on the middle and lower sections.

“I’m rusty, but I haven’t forgotten everything, obviously. Seeing that green light, I didn’t think I would win because I did too many bad turns, but I was surprised by the green light.”

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‘IT WORKS’ Despite dealing with an injury that typically takes four-to-six months to return to routine activity, Svindal said his heel wasn’t bothering him at all on the slopes.

“I’m not nervous about it,” he said “I’m more nervous about the course because my timing is off.

I go off from the start and think, ‘How do I do this perfectly?’ I don’t really feel it — it works.”

Svindal looked solid and fast on a course that gave many other top contenders trouble. Some turns took casualties that included Bode Miller, who crashed out spectacularly on The Abyss, and Svindal’s teammate Kjetil Jansrud who injured his shoulder hitting a gate.

“I talked to Bode about the course beforehand. We said, for two guys coming back from injury, the 10 first gates there aren’t exactly a smooth start,” said Svindal.

He attributed the fast recovery to a lot of physical therapy, especially to get his ankle moving normally again after six weeks in a cast.

“I think it was a lot of hard work and no bad luck. I don’t necessarily expect good luck, but I hope for no bad luck,” he said. “I’m doing a lot of physio, almost more for the joint more than the Achilles.

When you are in a cast, the toe is pointed for 6 weeks and you have to get the joint moving again.”

Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal makes a miraculous return to ski racing at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships with a sixth-place finish in men’s super-G race on Thursday at Beaver Creek. Svindal tore his Achilles tendon in the fall and was not expected to compete this season.

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Steve Nyman has torn his Achilles’tendon and can appreciate how hard it is to come back as quickly as Aksel Lund Svindal did. Svindal took sixth on Thursday at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.

He added that he wasn’t too surprised that he’s skiing well despite months off the snow.

“Most of it is the fact that I’ve been skiing a lot my whole life.

I’m not focusing on the bad parts, like that I haven’t been skiing in the last three months,” he said. “(My heel) is bothering me more walking down to the hotel than it is skiing. But that could have something to do with the adrenaline you get when you race.”

DOWNHILL EXPECTATIONS Still, others are shocked to see Svindal back in the gate so soon.

American downhiller Steven Nyman also ruptured his Achilles in 2011 during training and said he was very surprised to see Svindal racing.

“For him to be back right now is kind of unbelievable,” he said. “In your calf, you lose muscle mass faster than any other muscle in the body. I felt like I was skiing on

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Aksel Lund Svindal, of Norway, lands back on the snow after catching air on the Harrier Jump during the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships super-G race on Thursday in Beaver Creek. one and a half legs a year and a half later.”

However, Nyman added that his injury was more severe and extensive than Svindal’s.

Still, Svindal refused to speculate on how he might do in the weekend’s upcoming downhill race.

“My expectation coming in was to do a training run and then just see. I did the downhill training run, and I didn’t do

great, but I felt safe at least. Today I figured there’s nothing to lose,” he said, adding that he was not too far behind the fastest racers on Thursday. “I’m a little surprised, I have to say. It was a lot of fun.”

Assistant Managing Editor Melanie Wong can be reached at 970-748-2927 and mwong@ vaildaily.com. Follow her on Twitter @mwongvail.

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All you need to know about the women’s downhill No pressure, Lindsey

By Chris Freud cfreud@vaildaily.com

THE FACTS AND FIGURES

The format: One run. Fastest time wins. As a side note, getting down in one piece is a bonus.

Stats: We’ve got 39 racers. The

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Some races are more equal than others.

And even though we’ve had two fantastic super-Gs at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships at Beaver Creek, this is the downhill.

More specifically, this is the women’s downhill and Lindsey Vonn is in the house, wearing bib No. 22.

Yes, she won bronze on Tuesday in the super-G, which was great, but this was the race we were all imagining when we first heard that this area was getting these races back in 2010.

This is pressure, people. It’s not fair, but there is some truth to the following — she needs to win this race to complete her comeback from that knee injury during the 2013 Worlds in Austria. Yes, she has five wins on the World Cup circuit this year and leads the points in both downhill and super-G, but once she couldn’t make it back for the 2014 Olympics, this was the goal.

There’s also the sneaking feeling that the Austrians are starting to throw down as they normally do at Worlds. Anna Fenninger and Hannes Reichelt were golden in the super-Gs, and Fenninger won training on Thursday. (Yes, it’s only training, but Fenninger’s looking like she’s in the zone.)

Fenninger would be wearing No. 16 today.

There’s also Tina Maze (bib No. 21). It’s a little early to start the Lasse Kjus talk — medals in all five events — but the Slovenian is formidable.

Everyone always forgets about Germany’s Viktoria Rebensburg (17). Not only is she third in the super-G points, but she races well in the United States.

Do keep an eye out for Austria’s Cornelia Huetter (23). She was just off the podium on Tuesday.

Lara Gut (19), of Switzerland, won here at Raptor in 2013 in both the downhill and super-G. Like Vonn, she was blown away by the wind in Tuesday’s super-G. This really has the potential to be a seminal moment in these Worlds. Do the Austrians continue to control the races? Does Maze make a charge at history?

Or does Vonn stamp her mark on these Worlds with a win?

Like sands through the hour glass, we find out today, beginning at 11 a.m.

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Anna Fenninger, Tina Maze, Lara Gut top training Vonn misses gate, Cook crashes

By John LaConte jlaconte@vaildaily.com

BEAVER CREEK — The familiar trio of Anna Fenninger, Tina Maze and Lara Gut finished fastest at Thursday’s downhill training on the Raptor course at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships before today’s women’s downhill.

Those names have been frequently featured atop results lists during the last few seasons, with Maze, of Slovenia, winning the downhill and Fenninger, of Austria, winning the super-G at the 2014 Olympics, and the Swiss star Gut winning both of those disciplines here in Beaver Creek at the World Championships test event in 2013. Gut has also notched four World Cup wins in speed events (downhill and super-G) this season, with Maze finding a downhill win in Lake Louise, Alberta, and Fenninger winning the World Championships super-G here on Tuesday.

The only other women’s World

Cup racer to notch as impressive of results so far this season has been Lindsey Vonn. After missing a gate on the top part of the course Thursday, Vonn stopped attacking and said farewell to her chances of laying down another good training run. She was fourth in Monday’s first opportunity, but on Thursday she found herself more than 2 seconds off Fenninger and Maze.

Fenninger said she also missed a gate.

“I think a lot of the girls did,” she said. “I think it was the soft snow, because when it’s hard you can make easier the turn, then it’s possible with that line but today it was not possible.”

The winner of Monday’s training, American Stacey Cook, crashed and tumbled on Thursday, and didn’t finish her run. She was not available for comment but her teammates said she was doing fine.

WIND STILL A FACTOR Laurenne Ross and Julia Mancuso and were the fastest Americans on the day, finishing in 1 minute, 48:77 seconds and 1:48:86, respectively, for sixth and seventh. Mancuso also said the

soft snow was a serious factor.

“It’s really good in turns, and then it’s really bad in turns,” she said.

Ross described the conditions as windy, and the course as bally and bumpy.

“It was a lot different today than it was three days ago, and I think tomorrow it will be a lot different again, so it’s all about adapting on this hill,” she said.

Ross has taken runs on Raptor in April, November, January and February.

“It seems that February likes the winds,” Ross said Thursday.

“Hopefully, those don’t come into play tomorrow.”

In Tuesday’s super-G, Vonn said the wind was definitely a factor in her run, which was good enough for the podium but not gold or silver.

“I was definitely a bit disappointed by the wind at the top part,” Vonn said Tuesday. “When you have a big event, sometimes the weather doesn’t go your way.”

Gut, who missed the podium on Tuesday, had a similar reaction to the conditions.

“This was a little bit disappointing, starting a World Championships with so much wind.”

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Lindsey Vonn trains for the women’s downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships on Thursday in Beaver Creek. Vonn made a mistake during the practice run and finished well behind leader Anna Fenninger.

On Thursday, Mancuso said the wind had her thinking differently about her approach.

“When you ski down, it makes you a little less comfortable with what you’re doing,” Mancuso said. “You have to stay more

aerodynamic, and it pushes you all over the place, you don’t feel as confident to charge over the jumps and stuff. It was definitely windy the whole way down.

Today’s downhill is scheduled for 11 a.m.

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Theaux nabbed bronze by recording the fastest time from The Abyss to the finish, clipping Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud and Austria’s Matthias Mayer, who tied for fourth, by 3-hundredths of a second.

“It was a difficult season start for me this year,” Theaux said. “That’s why I’m more happy with this medal. It’s a great day for

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It was a long way from last summer to the season start. I was close to the podium in Kitzbuhel, (Austria). Now I’m on, so it’s perfect.”

Worlds continues with the women’s downhill today at 11 a.m.

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finish in December here at Beaver Creek and following up with a win in Val Gardena, Italy, and a fifth place in the Kitzbuehel downhill, was also disappointed with his race on Wednesday, struggling in the loose, clumpy snow.

“They warned us that its bally and weird.

I’m not that good in that type of snow,” Nyman said. “I’m actually proud with the way I skied the top. My super-G is getting better and better. I didn’t have the highest expectations. But downhill is coming up and that’s my forte.”

Before Miller’s status was disclosed, U.S. Ski Team head coach Sasha Rearick also described Thursday’s super-G performance as “somewhat disappointing.”

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Weather: Weather.com says 51 degrees and sunny. Holy cow — 51 degrees in February. The ever critical wind is 5-10 mph.

It’s important to note that said wind may be a little more intense up top, a key factor in Tuesday’s super-G. Remember, that if you’re watching at the bottom, the big grandstand and the other structures are blocking a lot of the wind you might feel.

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Defending Worlds Champion: Marion Rolland, of France, the 2013 surprise winner. She’s not in the field.

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Watch out: After Tuesday’s super-G and other runs, the wind is the factor. We’ll be looking hard at splits at the end of The Runway and at The Gauntlet. Vonn fell behind in the latter during the super-G and then gained nearly a half-second on the lower, more sheltered parts of the

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course. If she’s in green numbers by The Gauntlet, then she could be on her way to victory.

Favorites: Vonn, Fenninger, Maze, Rebensburg, Huetter and Gut. Italy’s Elena Fanchini (20) won in Cortina, Italy.

Austria’s Elisabeth Goergl (18) is always a factor and Switzerland’s Fabienne Suter (15) has been running well this week.

Dark horses: Is it time for Julia Mancuso (10) to bust out at Worlds? She looks much more comfortable on Raptor than she did in November 2013. Can Canada make it two in a row on the podium. Watch for Larisa Yurkiw (12).

Americans: Cook (9), Mancuso (10), Laurenne Ross (14) and Vonn (22).

The picks: The Vail Daily did well by going with Reichelt on Thursday. Sports Editor Chris Freud and ski goddess Shauna Farnell were right on the money. Pat Graham, of AP Denver, was looking good until Bode Miller crashed in The Abyss. For the women’s downhill, the trio, as well as the Vail Daily’s Melanie Wong, go with Vonn.

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