Toronto’s Crawford finished 0.51 seconds off lead in 4th position
The Associated Press · Posted: Dec 06, 2024 4:31 PM MST | Last Updated: 42 minutes ago
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Justin Murisier of Switzerland claimed his first World Cup victory by beating his stellar teammate Marco Odermatt in the opening men’s downhill race of the World Cup season on Friday.
Murisier beat Odermatt, the defending World Cup overall and downhill champion, by 0.20 seconds. Slovenia’s Miha Hrobat was third, 0.35 behind Murisier, to earn a spot on the World Cup podium for the first time in his career.
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Switzerland’s Justin Murisier gets his 1st World Cup win at Beaver Creek
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Duration1:56Justin Murisier earned his first career World Cup victory in the downhill race, on the Birds of Prey ski course in Beaver Creek, Colo.
Toronto’s Jack Crawford was 0.51 seconds off the lead in fourth place.
“I had a good plan today and I was able to lean into it,” Crawford said. “The snow and the course here are similar to what we grew up skiing on so it’s easy for me to trust myself to do the right things.”
