Alpine Skiing At The 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's Super-G
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The Men's
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competition of the Torino 2006 Olympics was held at
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, Italy, on Saturday, February 18. In
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competitions, skiers must navigate between gates at high speed, and the gates are further apart than in slalom and giant slalom competitions. As in the downhill, there is only one run of the super-G. The defending
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in super-G was
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of the United States, Austria's
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led the current season and won the Olympic gold medal in 1998; the defending Olympic champion was
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of Norway. Aamodt won the gold medal again, Maier took the silver, and the bronze medalist was
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of Switzerland; Miller did not finish. Through
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, this is the only successful Olympic title defense in a men's alpine speed event. It was Aamodt's third victory in the Olympic super-G (
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, 2006) and eighth Olympic medal. Held on the Kandahar Banchetta piste, the course started at an
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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Aamodt's winning time of 90.65 seconds yielded an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .


Results

The race was started at 14:45
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, ( UTC+1). At the starting gate, the sky was mostly cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was packed; the temperature at the finish was .


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Super-G Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event d ...