Lake Louise: Miller 4th, Sullivan 5th in DH training

Bode Miller and Marco Sullivan finished fourth and fifth, respectively, Wednesday in the first World Cup downhill training run of the season at Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. Austrian Christoph Gruber finished first with Italian Kurt Sulzenbacher second and Swiss racer Didier Cuche third.

 
BODE MILLER AND MARCO SULLIVAN finished fourth and fifth, respectively, Wednesday in the first World Cup downhill training run of the season at Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. Austrian Christoph Gruber finished first with Italian Kurt Sulzenbacher second and Swiss racer Didier Cuche third.
    Gruber clocked in at 1 minute, 54.27 seconds. Sulzenbacher was two hundredths back and Cuche just three hundredths behind that. Miller was timed a quarter of a second slower than the winner and Sullivan at .27 behind.
    The Lake Louise downhill is slated for Saturday and will be the first of 11 on the men’s World Cup schedule. Miller won the race in November 2004 while Fritz Strobl won last season. Strobl was 22nd in training.
    The U.S. skiers had solid team results, putting four into the top 20 with Steven Nyman in 18th, Scott Macartney 19th and Justin Johnson 23rd. The hosting Canadians had Manuel Osborne-Paradis in 10th, Erik Guay 15th, John Kucera 20th and Sine Gareth 21st.