World Sport News

Matthias Mayer from Carinthia missed the victory in the first World Cup downhill run of the winter by only 0.09 seconds. The Olympic gold medallist finished second behind Swiss world champion Beat Feuz at the speed kick-off of the alpine skiers in Lake Louise (Canada) on Saturday. Third place went to Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal (0.32) in his comeback after an injury break.

It was the eighth World Cup victory for Feuz. After 40 runners, Vincent Kriechmayr, Romed Baumann and Max Franz were the other Austrians in ninth to eleventh place. It was the first race after the fatal training accident of the Frenchman David Poisson, the runners competed with specially printed starting numbers and mourning ropes. Best Frenchman was Adrien Theaux as seventh.