UPDATED 1.21.08
MILLER SETS CUP RECORD
On Sunday, Bode Miller set the U.S. record for World Cup wins, notching his 28th
Cup win with a victory in the combined slalom and downhill in Austria.
Below: Check out
Bode Miller's record-tying run in the Wengen downhill last week.
1.13.08
Miller And Jacobellis Win Big Bode Miller ties U.S. record for World Cup wins; Lindsey
Jacobellis takes snowboardcross Cup in Austria.
It was a big
weekend for New England’s top snowsports athletes. Bode Miller,
of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, tied Phil Mahre for the most
World Cup victories by a U.S. skier Sunday as he won the 78th
Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen, Switzerland. He claimed his 27th
win by hammering the middle section for his second straight
triumph over the longest track on the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup
tour.
Meanwhile, reigning snowboardcross World Cup and world champion Lindsey
Jacobellis, of Stratton Mountain, Vermont, won the women's competition
in Bad Gastein, Austria, Sunday on an exciting and foggy day of World
Cup racing.
For
Miller, it was his second downhill win of the season and the sixth of
his career. He also has nine giant slalom wins, five in both super G and
slalom plus two in combined. Mahre, a three-time overall World Cup
champion (1981-83) and Olympic slalom gold medalist, won 11 combined
events plus nine slaloms and seven GS races before retiring in 1984.
"There was no braking, no backing off,"
Miller said after winning in 2:30.40. He attacked the 2.5K course and
skied what U.S. Coach Chris Brigham called "fantastic skiing. He crushed
it."
Miller
went from 0.38 seconds off the pace at the first checkpoint to 1.17
seconds up at the next timing split, then 1.39 ahead and 1.16 ahead
before winning by an impressive 0.65 seconds. Second place went to
Didier Cuche of Switzerland (2:31.05) with Canadian Manuel Osborne-Paradis
in third (2:31.73).
It was Miller's
second podium of the weekend, following a third-place finish Friday in
super combined. He also moved into second place in the points, behind
Austrian Benjamin Raich. Through 20 races, Raich has 890 points and
Miller has 611. Ted Ligety, who did not race in the DH, is sixth.
Over in Austria, Jacobellis finished ahead
of Switzerland's Mellie Francon and Olympic champion Tanja Frieden on a
foggy race course that made the competition more challenging.
"It was difficult to see”, Jacobellis
said. "In the last two runs I couldn't tell where people were. You had
to concentrate on what you are doing. In the final, I just noticed after
the last turn that I'm really leading.”
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