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NORWAY’S
DAY
KJETIL JANSRUD COMES CLOSE
— AND THEN WINS IT AT HIS HOME
HILL BY HANK MCKEE
Kvitfjell has been a regular road trip on the Cup tour
for the last 19 years and with one glaring exception (see
Matthias Lanzinger) has been among the better-organized
and safer tracks on the circuit. It is ironic, therefore, that
this year, the first training run was delayed by an organizing snafu when the jury radios refused to operate.
Kjetil Jansrud had been waiting for Kvitfjell for a long time.
Another delay was of no concern.
Jansrud hails from Vinstra, about 40 minutes upriver from
Kvitfjell. It’s his home hill. Never mind that he owned only
one downhill top- 10 in his life. Never mind that he had one
super G podium to his name. He was skiing better now, as
well as he ever had, this was his home mountain, those
were his people in his valley at the bottom of the race hill
and he aimed to make a statement, no matter what time the
start was.
