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Guay 2nd in Kvitfjell training, Dixon, Helie suffer concussions

March 5, 2010 — SRC Staff Report       

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KVITFJELL, Norway — Canada’s Erik Guay placed second Friday in the second downhill training run for men’s downhill action at Kvitfjell, Norway.

Swiss skier Didier Cuche led the training with a time of 1 minute, 47.52 seconds, with Guay finishing second in 1:47.88, and Swiss racers Didier Degao and Carlo Janka right behind.

Canada’a Manny Osborne-Paradis was 17th, with Jan Hudec 27th and Ben Thomsen 42nd.

It has not been a good week for Robbie Dixon and Louis-Pierre Hélie. Dixon crashed in training Thursday and was held out of Friday’s training run. ACA medical staff confirmed Dixon suffered a concussion and will not participate in racing this weekend in Kvitfjell. Hélie crashed in training Friday and has also been diagnosed with a concussion.

It will be a huge week and a half for ski racing on television with action available on CBC, Radio-Canada and Rogers Sportsnet in the next 10 days.

Rightsholder broadcaster CBC is dedicating more than 14 hours this weekend and another nine hours next week on its various platforms. It all starts with Saturday’s downhill races in Kvitfjell and Crans Montana both being carried live on www.cbcsports.ca as well as CBC cable channel bold.

The GMC Alpine Ski Series on CBC picks up the action at 2 p.m. ET with the women’s downhill followed by the men at 4:30 p.m. ET.

French-language viewers can catch both races as well either live on www.radio-canada.ca or on the main Radio-Canada network with two hours of coverage beginning at 3 p.m. ET.

Rogers Sportsnet coverage will resume during next week's FIS World Cup Finals along with CBC and Radio-Canada.  SRC

— Alpine Canada contributed to this report

Kvitfjell men’s World Cup downhill training No. 2 results