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SESTRIERE, Italy - Olympic downhill silver medalist Michael Walchhofer headed home after Austria left him off its four-man squad for Saturday’s super-G.
Walchhofer, who won silver in the super-G at the 2005 world championships, was bypassed for the team’s final berth in favor of overall World Cup leader Benjamin Raich. He later left Italy, Austria team spokesman Robert Brunner said.
Walchhofer won silver in Sunday’s downhill, then skied off-course during the first slalom run of Tuesday’s combined.
“I am very happy the coaches decided to pick me,” Raich said Thursday. “Of course, for Michi it’s not so fun.
“I was disappointed after the combined and a bit down, so this was good news for me,” added Raich, who was in position to win Tuesday’s combined event but failed to finish his final run.
Austria’s super-G team also includes Hermann Maier, Hannes Reichelt and Christoph Gruber.
Maier leads the World Cup super-G standings, while Reichelt is third. Gruber won the most recent super-G.
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“It’s always difficult to make a decision like this,” Austria men’s head coach Toni Giger said. “Both Beni and Michael were on the podium in super-G at the world championships in Bormio last year, but both haven’t had the best season in super-G so far.”
Giger said the decisive factor was that in Raich’s best super-G performance of the season — a second place in Lake Louise, Alberta — he was only seven-hundredths of a second behind the winning time.
Walchhofer has been more consistent in the super-G this season, but in his best performance — a sixth-place finish in the last World Cup super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany — he was 0.98 behind the winner.
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Coaches said Manfred Pranger and Mario Matt will fight it out in a series of time trials on Tuesday for the fourth spot on the team.
Matt’s best slalom result this season was a fourth-place finish in Beaver Creek, Colorado, last December. Pranger’s was an eighth-place finish in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, later that month.
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