Skiing: Norway’s Svindal takes super-G trophy
Svindal won the super-G World Cup trophy yesterday.
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Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal won the super-G World Cup trophy yesterday, as Italy’s Christof Innerhofer took the victory in the discipline’s last race of the season. “I was lucky. I’m very happy,” said Svindal after the race. Meanwhile, Innerhofer finished in a time of one minute 21.24 seconds (s) in his first super-G victory since he won the World Championship in the discipline in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany last year. Beat Feuz of Switzerland, the favourite for the overall World Cup trophy, crashed and did not finish the race, boosting the chances of Austria’s Marcel Hirscher to overtake him at the weekend. France’s Alexis Pinturault came second in one minute and 21.26s, with Hirscher grabbing a crucial third place and his first ever super-G World Cup podium, a further 0.04s behind.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2012.
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