Austrian teammate Daniel Danklmaier, who wore bib No. Otmar Striedinger, who started 27th, took advantage and finished only 0.37 behind in third. None of the pre-race favorites came close to the Italian’s time, but Paris’ victory still came under threat when the skies suddenly cleared and some sunshine came through, giving lower-ranked starters better visibility. If someone else is two-tenths faster and wins here for the third time, you have to accept that.” “It’s one of the courses that challenges you to take the extra risk, and I love the risk.”īeaten by the Italian, Feuz missed out on the coveted Streif win once again, finishing runner-up for the third time. “I really went to the limit today, but I love the Streif,” Paris said. 13, he trailed Feuz by a quarter of a second at the second split time but stayed on the ideal race line for the rest of the course. Paris certainly had the right feeling on the challenging and notoriously dangerous course Friday. But you also need the right feeling,” said Paris, who celebrated his 10th career victory in downhill and 12th overall. “Like in Bormio, you need power and technique because you are racing to your limits. Paris could complete a similar speed double in Kitzbuehel if he also takes Sunday’s super-G, an event he once won, in 2015. He also triumphed in Bormio, Italy, four weeks ago, where he won both the downhill and the super-G. It was the sixth downhill of the season, but Paris became the first man to win twice. He is the seventh racer with at least three victories on the course, and only Didier Cuche (five) and Franz Klammer (four) have won more. Last year, as she finally returned to the World Cup circuit, Street said she had "way more fear than I expected, fear of the unknown.Paris’ previous downhill wins on the Streif came in 20.
She has experienced it for large parts of the three years since breaking her thigh bone and tearing up her knee in a race crash a month after her Olympic triumph. Street, the Olympic super-G gold medalist in 1998, knows what that is like.
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Now he finds himself with a titanium rod stabilizing his broken leg and a mental state so fragile doctors asked the TV crew that interviewed him not to dwell on the accident.
thinks he can get away with anything." He has flouted course rules, vandalized a public phone in a drunken celebration of his World Cup overall title in 2000, and been involved in "borrowing" a bicycle after a race in the United States.Īdd a jaw that looks as if it could cut the bricks he once laid as a mason, and Maier has projected invincibility. If Killy was the suave Frenchman and Tomba the Italian playboy, Maier is the Teutonic terror. In a sport where a few hundredths of a second often determines victory at the elite level, Maier often wins by a second or more. He also won three individual discipline season titles-downhill, super-G and giant slalom-for the second time in a row. Maier last season won his second straight World Cup overall title and third in the past four years. "He's up there with Killy, Tomba, Klammer, that crowd."
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