The men's
super combined
Combined is an event in alpine ski racing. A traditional combined competition consists of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom, each discipline runs on separate days. The winner is the skier with the fastest aggregate time. (Until the 1990s ...
competition of the
Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at
Whistler Creekside
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in
Whistler, British Columbia
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. The competition was scheduled for February 16, but was postponed due to weather delays in preceding races; it was held five days later on February 21.
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athlete
Bode Miller
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won his only Olympic gold medal,
Ivica Kostelić
Ivica Kostelić (; born 23 November 1979) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Croatia. He specialized in slalom and combined, but was also one of the few alpine World Cup ski racers able to score points in all disciplines. He is the br ...
of
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won silver, and
Silvan Zurbriggen
Silvan Zurbriggen (born 15 August 1981) is a retired Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer who competed primarily in downhill and combined, and occasionally in super-G. In 2012, he stopped competing in slalom due to poor results.
Born in Brig, V ...
of
Switzerland
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took the bronze.
One major change in this event for the 2010 Olympics was the switch from a traditional dedicated "combined" (K), taking place over one or two days and involving a downhill run and two slalom runs (as the combined had been since its reintroduction to the Olympics in
1988
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), to a one-day "super combined" (SC), consisting of a downhill run in the morning and one slalom run in the afternoon.
The super combined format lessens the advantage of the slalom specialists.
Results
See also
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Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics – Men's combined
The Men's Super Combined competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics is held at Whistler Blackcomb in Whistler, British Columbia. The competition has been rescheduled to Sunday March 21 due to recent weather conditions.
It was the first ti ...
References
External links
2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's Super Combined fro
vancouver2010.com retrieved 2010-02-20.
- 2010 Winter Olympics - results - Men's super-combined
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Combined
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...