LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Nov. 27) - One day after finishing a frustrated 32nd in the opening downhill of the season, former super G world champion Daron Rahlves (Sugar Bowl, CA) stepped onto his first podium Sunday, finishing third in a super G at Lake Louise. Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal, who won his first World Cup race, an event in which the top three racers were just eight-hundredths of a second apart.

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“It was such a tough one to suck up [Saturday]. I was as pissed I get,” Rahlves said. “It was a day when you come out and don’t ski to the potential you have at all. My mind was in the wrong spot yesterday. ...Today changed all that around. I’m excited for Beaver Creek” later this week at the VISA Birds of Prey World Cup races Thursday through Sunday.

Svindal was timed in 1:26.04 with Austrian Benjamin Raich second in 1:26.11, one-hundredth of a second ahead of Rahlves. Bode Miller (Bretton Woods, NH), the reigning World Cup and World Championships SG champion, finished 18th after going down on one hip and rescuing his run on the lower half of the narrow midsection. JJ Johnson (Park City, UT) tied for 35th on the 2.5K course with Steve Nyman (Orem, UT) 38th.

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