For the week of February 5 - 11, 2003

Silver, bronze at
worlds for U.S.

SG openers at St. Moritz

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It was a great start in super giant slalom for the U.S. Ski Team at the 2003 FIS World Alpine Ski Championships in St. Moritz, Switz. After two events, the U.S. and Austria are tied 3-3 in medal count.

New Hampshire’s Bode Miller, starting 23rd, won the silver medal Sunday in the SG opener won by his chief rival for the World Cup overall title, Stephan Eberharter of Austria.

Tying Miller for second place a full .77 seconds behind Eberharter was Austria’s comeback kid Hermann Maier. Defending world SG king Daron Rahlves settled for 22nd.

In Monday’s women’s SG, Kirsten Clark and Jonna Mendes went silver and bronze—Clark missing the gold by just .02 seconds. The winner was Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria.

 

Rounding out the schedule of the two-week event:

Thursday, Feb. 6: Men’s combined DH/SL. Saturday, Feb. 8: Men’s DH. Sunday, Feb. 9: Women’s DH. Monday, Feb. 10: Women’s combined DH/SG.

Wednesday, Feb. 12: Men’s GS. Thursday, Feb. 13: Women’s GS. Saturday, Feb. 15: Women’s SL. Sunday, Feb. 16: Men’s SL.

NBC plans to carry two hours of coverage Feb. 8 from 2-4 p.m. MST (men’s DH/SG) and Feb. 9 from 11-1 (women’s DH/SG), then Feb. 15 from 2-4 (women’s GS/SL, men’s GS) and Feb. 16 from 11-1 (men’s SL, women’s combined).

 

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