Bode Miller takes opening training run at Lake Louise

Bode Miller claimed the opening training run ahead of Saturday’s World Cup Downhill, the Bombardier Lake Louise Winterstart, at Lake Louise Alberta.

Miller, the runner-up in last season’s World Cup downhill standings was clocked in 1:47.22, beating Austrians Klaus Kroell, eight hundredths behind, and Michael Walchhofer, eighteen hundredths behind. Didier Cuche, last season’s downhill champion, finished fourth .26 off the pace.

American Marco Sullivan finished seventh a little over a half second behind Miller. Steven Nyman finished in a three way tie for tenth place with Canadians John Kucera 15th and Eric Guay 20th. Francois Bourque was 23rd just ahead of teammate Manuel Osborne-Paradis in 24th. TJ Lanning of the U.S. was 26th.

Two more training runs are on the schedule for Thanksgiving Day and Friday.

Bode Miller claimed the opening training run ahead of Saturday’s World Cup Downhill, the Bombardier Lake Louise Winterstart, at Lake Louise Alberta.

Miller, the runner-up in last season’s World Cup downhill standings was clocked in 1:47.22, beating Austrians Klaus Kroell, eight hundredths behind, and Michael Walchhofer, eighteen hundredths behind. Didier Cuche, last season’s downhill champion, finished fourth .26 off the pace.

American Marco Sullivan finished seventh a little over a half second behind Miller. Steven Nyman finished in a three way tie for tenth place with Canadians John Kucera 15th and Eric Guay 20th. Francois Bourque was 23rd just ahead of teammate Manuel Osborne-Paradis in 24th. TJ Lanning of the U.S. was 26th.

Two more training runs are on the schedule for Thanksgiving Day and Friday.

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First Training Run – Lake Louise – Nov. 26, 2008

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Total Time	FIS Points
1	17	532431	MILLER Bode	1977	USA	1:47.22
2	16	50753	KROELL Klaus	1980	AUT	1:47.30
3	12	50041	WALCHHOFER Michael	1975	AUT	1:47.40
4	15	510030	CUCHE Didier	1974	SUI	1:47.48
5	22	51005	SCHEIBER Mario	1983	AUT	1:47.55
6	7	292455	FILL Peter	1982	ITA	1:47.61
7	20	533131	SULLIVAN Marco	1980	USA	1:47.79
8	13	510727	DEFAGO Didier	1977	SUI	1:47.84
9	8	350032	BUECHEL Marco	1971	LIE	1:47.87
10	14	421328	SVINDAL Aksel Lund	1982	NOR	1:47.95
10	9	510767	HOFFMANN Ambrosi	1977	SUI	1:47.95
10	3	533866	NYMAN Steven	1982	USA	1:47.95
13	24	510747	GRUENENFELDER Tobias	1977	SUI	1:47.96
14	5	292514	HEEL Werner	1982	ITA	1:48.01
15	21	102873	KUCERA John	1984	CAN	1:48.06
16	31	380260	KOSTELIC Ivica	1979	CRO	1:48.17
17	36	500150	JAERBYN Patrik	1969	SWE	1:48.22
18	47	510498	ZUEGER Cornel	1981	SUI	1:48.32
19	1	501076	OLSSON Hans	1984	SWE	1:48.37
20	18	102263	GUAY Erik	1981	CAN	1:48.59
21	32	50625	RAICH Benjamin	1978	AUT	1:48.64
22	19	50423	MAIER Hermann	1972	AUT	1:48.66
23	60	102814	BOURQUE Francois	1984	CAN	1:48.68
24	40	50919	STRUGER Peter	1982	AUT	1:48.72
25	39	534567	LANNING T.J.	1984	USA	1:48.77
26	11	560332	JERMAN Andrej	1978	SLO	1:48.82
27	6	50451	GRUBER Christoph	1976	AUT	1:48.85
28	23	192746	THEAUX Adrien	1984	FRA	1:48.90
29	29	293006	INNERHOFER Christof	1984	ITA	1:48.97
29	27	50858	STREITBERGER Georg	1981	AUT	1:48.97
31	66	102961	DIXON Robbie	1985	CAN	1:49.10
32	38	50761	ALSTER Christoph	1980	AUT	1:49.19
33	50	50831	GRAGGABER Thomas	1981	AUT	1:49.21
34	43	191116	DALCIN Pierre-Emmanuel	1977	FRA	1:49.22
35	44	380292	ZRNCIC-DIM Natko	1986	CRO	1:49.35
36	77	201542	STRODL Peter	1982	GER	1:49.37
37	26	291641	SULZENBACHER Kurt	1976	ITA	1:49.43
38	2	532490	MACARTNEY Scott	1978	USA	1:49.46
39	34	50742	REICHELT Hannes	1980	AUT	1:49.57
40	28	191964	POISSON David	1982	FRA	1:49.72
41	56	103090	HELIE Louis-Pierre	1986	CAN	1:49.86
42	42	292291	THANEI Stefan	1981	ITA	1:49.99
43	90	50600	GOERGL Stephan	1978	AUT	1:50.00
44	73	511313	JANKA Carlo	1986	SUI	1:50.05
45	45	530939	WEIBRECHT Andrew	1986	USA	1:50.15
46	46	561067	PERKO Rok	1985	SLO	1:50.16
47	69	510307	BRAND Olivier	1980	SUI	1:50.19
48	4	191740	CLAREY Johan	1981	FRA	1:50.24
49	75	220228	MICKEL Finlay	1977	GBR	1:50.38
50	65	533842	FRANCIS Kevin	1982	USA	1:50.39
51	76	201987	STRODL Andreas	1987	GER	1:50.40
52	82	421483	JANSRUD Kjetil	1985	NOR	1:50.45
53	55	421400	MYHRE Lars Elton	1984	NOR	1:50.52
54	48	290998	STAUDACHER Patrick	1980	ITA	1:50.55
54	30	191591	BERTRAND Yannick	1980	FRA	1:50.55
56	35	292491	MOELGG Manfred	1982	ITA	1:50.57
57	37	510890	ZURBRIGGEN Silvan	1981	SUI	1:50.60
58	41	192932	FAYED Guillermo	1985	FRA	1:50.63
59	64	534939	FISHER Erik	1985	USA	1:50.67
60	62	533098	FRIEDMAN Bryon	1980	USA	1:50.71
61	79	40255	BRAUER Jono	1981	AUS	1:50.74
62	63	561006	GLEBOV Alek	1983	SLO	1:50.76
63	57	511039	KREUZER Ralf	1983	SUI	1:50.81
63	33	510993	ALBRECHT Daniel	1983	SUI	1:50.81
65	53	150421	ZAHROBSKY Petr	1980	CZE	1:50.87
66	70	201606	KEPPLER Stephan	1983	GER	1:50.94
67	71	191415	BOTTOLLIER-LASQUIN Marc	1979	FRA	1:51.01
68	74	511383	FEUZ Beat	1987	SUI	1:51.02
68	54	293550	MARSAGLIA Matteo	1985	ITA	1:51.02
70	52	191911	NOCENTI Cyril	1982	FRA	1:51.03
71	61	103512	FRISCH Jeffrey	1984	CAN	1:51.04
72	67	201811	STECHERT Tobias	1985	GER	1:51.12
73	25	51215	BAUMANN Romed	1986	AUT	1:51.26
74	81	292831	PIERUZ Aronne	1983	ITA	1:51.27
75	51	560447	SPORN Andrej	1981	SLO	1:51.36
76	72	380298	SIROKI Tin	1987	CRO	1:51.58
77	49	533762	TRANSUE Jeremy	1983	USA	1:51.67
78	68	561085	KRIZAJ Andrej	1986	SLO	1:51.73
79	83	102727	STUTZ Paul	1983	CAN	1:52.07
80	78	191746	DE TESSIERES Gauthier	1981	FRA	1:52.11
81	58	292967	EISATH Florian	1984	ITA	1:52.29
82	85	292000	BLARDONE Massimiliano	1979	ITA	1:52.52
83	87	380291	RATKIC Ivan	1986	CRO	1:52.61
84	80	501230	ERICSSON Daniel	1987	SWE	1:52.72
85	86	480997	TARANENKO Mikhail	1988	RUS	1:53.13
86	84	480736	HOROSHILOV Alexandr	1984	RUS	1:53.39
87	88	430429	BYDLINSKI Maciej	1988	POL	1:55.88
88	89	700724	BABUSIAK Jaroslav	1984	SVK	2:14.23