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Preview
- Downhill -
Giant Slalom - Super
G - Combined Champs
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Super G
Finlay Mickel and Jo Greig collected the Super G titles at the British
Land Alpine Ski Championships, and the crowds are looking towards
the races for the overall British combined champion titles. Theoretically
it is the foundation skills discipline of Giant Slalom where all
the skills meet and tomorrow's Giant Slalom could all but decide
both the Men's and Women's Combined Championships.
Mickel added his second title in as many days with a confident run.
The small errors cost him time, but he still retained the Super
G title he won last year in Tignes. Noel Baxter laid down the gauntlet
for Mickel though when he finished a close second in a discipline
he does not routinely train.
Noel Baxter second
place
Now with Noel's elder brother Alain, who returns to competition
after a couple of days of rest, returning as favourite to win the
Giant Slalom and the chance for other younger members of The British
Land Alpine Ski Team to make their mark in the discipline they train
and are measured by regularly, Mickel will have to ski to his best
in the giant slalom which he has won before.
On a course set by performance director Mark Tilston to test pre
race inspection skills and the ability to adapt quickly on the fast
changing terrain, Noel Baxter proved he has these virtues in his
armoury as he eclipsed Roger Cruickshank who is better known as
a speed disciplines skier. "I made a bit of a mistake on the final
pitch and had one leg way up in the air but managed to recover but
I am sure it cost me some time."
Jo Greig takes women's title
In the Women's Super G race it was Jo Greig who took the title she
last won in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria as a Junior aged racer.
She gave herself a margin of 77 hundredths of a second over Lynn
Sharp. With a first from yesterday and today's second, while Greig
did not ski the downhill, Sharp should be on course to win the women's
overall.
"It just feels like everything is coming together nicely at the
moment and I am skiing well. I have got much more confident over
the last few weeks and that is helping" said Greig.
Super G Championship - Women
1 J Greig (The British Land Alpine Ski Team/Weybridge) 1:14.73,
2 L Sharp (The British Land Alpine Ski Team/Glasgow) 1:50.50,
3 P Thorburn (The British Land Alpine Ski Team/Strathven) 1:16.51.
Super G Championship - Men
1 F Mickel (The British Land Alpine Ski Team/Edinburgh) 1:10.35,
2 N Baxter (The British Land Alpine Ski Team/Aviemore) 1:10.69,
3 R Cruickshank (The British Land Alpine Ski Team/Banchory) 1:10.73,
4 R Green (The British Land Alpine Ski Team/Falkirk) 1:11.09,
5 J Brauer (Aus) 1:11.81,
6 D Crawford (The British Home Nations Development Team/Glasgow)
1:12.44
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