Paris (AFP) – Home skier Manuel Feller of Austria was fastest on the first run of the Kirchenkar slalom in the Alpine skiing World Cup opening men’s race on Saturday.
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On crisp, compact snow with the mercury below -9C Feller swooped down from the 2475m altitude starting gate at Gurgl taking 53.22sec to swivel down the tightly-gated run with French slalom specialist Clement Noel at 0.94sec in second.
Olympic champion Noel will need a shift in fortune to overtake the former world champion Feller in the afternoon second run.
A previous meeting at Solden was called off last week and the first of two scheduled women’s downhill races at Zermatt was shelved earlier Saturday due to poor weather.
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