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Miller Extends Overall Lead, 2nd in SG
KVITFJELL, Norway (March 2) - World Cup overall leader Bode Miller (Bretton Woods, NH) added some distance on Swiss chaser Didier Cuche and Austrian Benni Raich after finishing second, .12 ahead of Cuche, in the Kvitfjell super G on the 1994 Olympic course.
The podium was Miller's third of the weekend as Austrian Georg Streitberger won with a time of 1:26.68, just .20 in front of Miller. Marco Sullivan (Squaw Valley, CA) was 17th and Steven Nyman (Provo, UT) 24th.
Fellow American Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) also leads the women's overall World Cup standings. It is the first time two U.S. skiers have held the position since Phil Mahre and Tamara McKinney captured the overall titles in 1983. Miller has already secured the super combined crystal globe, while Vonn locked the women's downhill title last weekend.
"It was a hell of a weekend for Bode. He's skiing with so much confidence right now and has put himself in a great position going into World Cup Finals. He wants that overall title and he wants the downhill title," said Speed Head Coach Chris Brigham.
"It was great to see Marco finish up there today too, he's pretty banged up after crashing in both downhills, but he did some work with Team physio [Paul Frankham] this morning and took advantage of an early starting spot to score some points."
Brigham was also pleased with Nyman's result saying he skied fast in a couple of sections and was in 10th going into the final split before making a small mistake on the bottom as clouds moved over the hill.
With six races remaining in the season, Miller has 1,363 points to 1,178 for Cuche, who took over second place after Saturday's downhill. Raich is third with 1,073. The World Cup now swings to Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, for a giant slalom and slalom, the final races before World Cup Finals scheduled for March 12-19 in Bormio, Italy.
"Cuche is going to have to ski some pretty spectacular GS next weekend and Benni knows he has to have two solid races to stay in it. Like I said yesterday, Bormio is going to be pretty exciting," said Brigham.
Going into Kranjska Gora, Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) is just 23 points behind Raich for the GS crystal globe. Ligety tied for fourth in GS at the Slovenian resort last season, just .05 off the podium and finished third in a slalom there in 2005 for the second World Cup podium of his career.
WCSN.com will have webstreaming available of Sunday's super G at 1 p.m. ET with recovering U.S. Ski Team athlete Scott Macartney (Crystal Mountain, WA) providing commentary along with former racer Steve Porino.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
2008 AUDI FIS ALPINE WORLD CUP
Kvitfjell, NOR - March 2, 2008
Men's super G
1. Georg Streitberger, Austria, 1:26.68
2. Bode Miller, Bretton Woods, NH, 1:26.88
3. Didier Cuche, Switzerland, 1:27.00
4T. Ambrosi Hoffmann, Switzerland, 1:27.10
4T. Robbie Dixon, Canada, 1:27.10
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17. Marco Sullivan, Squaw Valley, CA, 1:27.66
24. Steven Nyman, Provo, UT, 1:27.93
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