WENGEN, Switzerland - Werner Heel of Italy was fastest in a relatively slow first training run on Wednesday for a World Cup downhill.
Tracy McGrady Jersey . One year after Frenchman Johan Clarey set a World Cup speed record of 161.9 km/h here, Heel hit
148.4 kilometres per hour through the Hanneggschuss straight. Heel timed 2
minutes, 39.04 seconds on the 4.4-kilometre Lauberhorn course, the longest in
the World Cup, which was softened by fresh snowfalls. Peter Fill of Italy was
second, 0.30 back. Patrick Kueng of Switzerland trailed Heel by 0.45 in third.
Christof Innerhofer, the Italian defending champion, placed fourth, almost 10
seconds behind his 2013 winning time. Erik Guay of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was
fifth. Austrian Hannes Reichelt, who briefly held the speed record last year
before Clareys run, said the course had been modified in the fastest section at
the two-minute mark. "They made a little bit more turns at Hanneggschuss so
there is no chance to get 160 (km/h)," said Reichelt who placed third last year.
Downhill standings leader Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway was 10th. "That wasnt too
convincing. I actually felt better here last year when I won the trainings,"
said Svindal, who has never finished on a Wengen downhill podium in eight
attempts. Bode Miller of the United States, the Lauberhorn winner in 2007 and 08
and runner-up the following year, was 15th fastest. Svindal and Miller both
start in a super-combined event on Friday — won by the American in 2010 — that
is threatened by a forecast for snow during a training run on Thursday. The
slalom portion will be run first in the morning to give course workers more time
to prepare the shortened downhill course in the afternoon. The 84th Lauberhorn
race meeting peaks with the classic downhill on Saturday, traditionally the most
popular event on Switzerlands sports calendar. A slalom on Sunday completes the
program.
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