Man down

Aksel Lund Svindal in the safety nets after the crash out
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Some important and unexpected results from Wengen's weekend.

Man down no.1
Greater echos will come from the Downhill for the 0 in the point tab near the name of Svindal.
Svindal crashed just after the Hundschopf, going backward with the bust and being unable to put pressure on his skis to face the next turn.
Also for the norvegian champion would have been difficult to overtake Innerhofer who's recorded a run close to the perfection, and beated the austrian duo Kroell by 0.30s and Reichelt by 0.76s.
The shape of this two austrian seems to be growing while we're approaching Kitzbuehel and the World Campionships
Key point remains Svindal's crash that could be a blow to the World Cup now that Hirscher leads with a solid margin of 188 points.
Anyway Svindal has more races in his calendar.
For the norvegian there are: 3 Super-Gs, 4 Downhills, 3 Giant-Slaloms and 1 Combined.
While Hirscher has got: 3 Giant-Slaloms, 3 Slaloms and 1 Combined.

Man down no.2
Hirscher, World Cup leader and defender and Slalom Cup leader, after three consecutive Slalom victories has to bow to Neureuther.
Hirscher not winning is kind of a great news, we were used to his "calculated risk", his racing at 80% but still too much for anyone.
Neureuther won on one of the most technical slopes also to made history, winning again on a course where also his father won (father-son double also in Kitzbuhel and Garmisch) .
Could be sensed that a win for Neureuther wasn't too far from happening, he was costantly in top positions and seems to be at his peak, avoiding cheap mistakes that often had stopped him in past seasons.
Kostelic completes the podium, confirming that January is "his" month and he's just reached the peak of the form for this season and from now on there will be one more competitor for top positions.

Man down no.3
With too many injuries to obstacle the training and shape and the raising of younger talents in the Slalom I think that the only reasonble target for Kostelic was the Combined Cup.
The croatian also got former italian downhill racer Kristian Ghedina in his staff to improve in Downhill.
It wasn't enough.
Pinturault won the combined with an aggressive slalom run, easily covering the 0.02s gap between his and Kostelic's downhill run, and increasing it to a final 1.05s.
For the frenchman this is the third career victory, all three in different disciplines, and he still hasn't got a victory in his favourite one, the Giant-Slalom: won a City Event, a Slalom and now the Super Combined.
Little celebration for a devasted Swiss team that with its emblematic athlet, both for being the biggest name and for being devasted as well, as Janka jumps on the lowest step podium.

Last mention to frencheman Clarey who went down to a top speed of 161.9km/h, for a new speed record.