11:21 | Good morning from the finish area of the Saslong! In less than an hour the World Cup Super G will begin.

11:21 | The weather is relatively good at the moment: It's cloudy, but there is no fog on the course.

11:22 | At the Start at 2,000m altitude, it's -3 degrees, at the Finish its -2 degrees.

11:23 | The Super G is about 2.4 km long.

11:24 | John McBride set 49 gates and 45 direction changes.

11:26 | By the way, this had to happen in record time as the downhill training went on for a while and it was almost dark.

11:27 | The jury has just decided that the original Start will not be used, but that the athletes will start from the reserve Start.

11:29 | This was decided in order to avoid fog banks that might build up in the upper part of the piste.

11:30 | The Reserve Start is located by the first wall at the treeline.

11:31 | New information from the jury: The Start was moved not because of the fog, but due to the strong wind.

11:34 | The Start is now located at 1,900 metres altitude, not 2,000.

11:50 | Who are the favourites for today's Super G?

11:51 | The top favourite could be Aksel Lund Svindal who came first and second in the last two Super Gs.

11:51 | Svindal has already won 6 Super Gs in the Worl Cup and even here in Val Gardena he came out on top in 2009.

11:52 | Last year Michael Walchhofer won, but the Austrian, as we know, has ended his career.

12:02 | News from the Jury: The distance between the starts of the first 30 bib numbers will be 1:30 minutes.

12:02 | The first camera man has finished the Super G.

12:05 | Gustav Thöni, South Tyrol's former ski star, is also in the finish area.

12:05 | He won his fourth overall World Cup here in Val Gardena in 1975.

12:07 | The forerunners are on the course. The race can be started at 12.15 as planned.

12:10 | A reminder: The race will be opened by Silvan Zurbriggen, Sandro Viletta, the winner of the Super G in Beaver Creek, has bib number 9 and Aksel Lund Svindal who won in Lake Louise, number 20.

12:11 | The first of the Italian team is Christof Innerhofer, the Super G World Champion will race with bib number 16.

12:14 | Last year Michi Walchhofer's winning time was 1:34.25 minutes. This year the winner will not take that long as the course has, of course, been shortened.

12:15 | We're ready! Silvan Zurbriggen is on the piste.

12:16 | Zurbriggen's run looks very harmonious.

12:16 | He is almost continuously crouching.

12:16 | Light jump towards the finish area and then he's at the Finish.

12:16 | Zurbriggen took 1:23,73 minutes.

12:17 | Patrick Küng, the next Swiss, has just started. He is considerably faster than Zurbriggen at the top.

12:17 | Küng is aggressive.

12:17 | 0.8 seconds ahead in the interim time for Küng.

12:18 | In the Finish Küng tops Zurbriggen by almost a second.

12:18 | Küng doesn't seem happy at all.

12:19 | What his time is worth we will see after Joachim Puchner.

12:19 | The 24-year-old is an up and coming talent in the Austrian team.

12:20 | Puchner is just behind Küng at the second interim time.

12:20 | Towards the end Puchner steps on the pedal again and is 0.38 seconds ahead of Küng.

12:20 | But careful now: Mario Scheiber. The Austrian is celebartin his comeback! Well done!

12:21 | Scheiber is very fast at the top.

12:21 | He is 0.1 seconds ahead.

12:21 | Scheiber is in the finish area: Second place with a delay of 0.08 seconds.

12:21 | Puchner skied really well at the bottom.

12:21 | Now the first Norwegian: Kjetil Jansrud. He is ahead at the top.

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12:22 | Now the German Stephan Keppler.

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12:23 | But Keppler already has a big delay at the top.

12:23 | But he recuperates.

12:24 | A brief wobbler towars the end, Keppler risks.

12:24 | In the Finish Keppler is 0.4 seconds back in second place behind Jansrud.

12:25 | Even the next racer, Didier Defago (SUI) has already won in Val Gardena.

12:25 | He is slow at the top today.

12:25 | Defago is 0.66 seconds behin in the interim time.

12:25 | In the Finish Defago is 0.74 seconds back.

12:25 | Bode Miller has started. He has also won in Val Gardena. He is behind at the top.

12:25 | But at the second interim time he is leading 0.01 seconds.

12:27 | Miller expands his advantage.

12:27 | Bode Miller is in the lead. 0.14 seconds in front of Jansrud, 0.54 seconds ahead of Keppler.

12:28 | Sandro Viletta, the winner of Beaver Creek, has started.

12:28 | In the middle he is 0.7 seconds behind.

12:28 | This is not his race.

12:28 | In the Finish Viletta is eighth with 1.11 seconds delay.

12:29 | Four Swiss racers are in the rankings. The have the last four positions. Can Carlo Janko stop this?

12:30 | Short break as a gate has come undone.

12:31 | At the same time the course is being painted blue to help the racers in these diffuse light conditions.

12:31 | The race continues with Carlo Janka.

12:31 | Janka is 0.43 seconds ahead at the top.

12:32 | Janka's delay is increasing rapidly.

12:32 | He is 1.66 seconds back in the Finish.

12:33 | Now there are five Swiss racers at the bottom of the rankings.

12:33 | Did the compatriots do something wrong?

12:33 | The Austrian Georg Streitberger is on the piste.

12:33 | He is also back more than a second.

12:34 | He cannot hurt Miller and skis into 9th place. At least there are now only two Swiss skiers at the bottom of the ranking list.

12:34 | Erik Guay, last year's third, has started. He likes the Saslong.

12:35 | But today is not his day.

12:35 | He is having difficulties with his line.

12:35 | Erik Guay is ninth with 1.49 seconds delay.

12:35 | Maybe Romed Baumann can do getter.

12:35 | No, Baumann is too slow at the top.

12:36 | He is a second back at the interim time.

12:36 | At the Finish the Austrian Baumann is ninth with 1.17 seconds delay. He is shaking his head.

12:37 | Can Tobias Grünenfelder save the honour of the Swiss team?

12:37 | In the meantime it has started snowing.

12:38 | But Grünenfelder loses a lot of time. It is not a good day for the Swiss team.

12:38 | He is 1.87 seconds back at the Finish.

12:39 | Klaus Kröll has started. The Austrian is ahead at the top.

12:39 | Danger for Kröll on the Ciaslat.

12:40 | The mistake has cost him half a second.

12:43 | The race continues with Christof Innerhofer.

12:43 | He is already behind at the top.

12:43 | But the delay is minimal.

12:44 | The world champion would be happy with a top 15 position.

12:44 | This aim could work out for him: He is 10th with 1.17 seconds delay.

12:45 | The Croatian Ivica Kostelic is now attacking Bode Miller.

12:46 | Kostelic is far back in the Finish: 1.86 seconds delay.

12:46 | Bode Miller did so well at the bottom of the Saslong.

12:46 | Adrien Theaux (FRA) will try to do better.

12:46 | He is risking a lot.

12:46 | He loses time and is eighth.

12:46 | Can Didier Cuche save the honour of the Swiss team?

12:47 |

12:47 | Weather update: It is snowin more heavily now.

12:48 | Even Didier Cuche loses and loses.

12:49 | Cuche races into 10th place. This race was a disaster.

12:50 | Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR) has started: If even he can't beat Miller, then it will be difficult to push the American off the podium.

12:52 | Svindal is 0.09 seconds ahead at the top.

12:52 | But at the second interim time he Svindal is now back.

12:52 | Svindal is losing continuously: 0.4 seconds delay into the Ciaslat.

12:52 | But Svindal is able to keep his delay to a minimum and races into third place!

12:52 | Svindal is 0.39 seconds off and has proven that Miller's time can still be topped.

12:53 | But certainly not by Benni Raich.

12:54 | At the Finish Raich is almost 2 seconds off.

12:54 | The Austrian already has a delay of a second at the top.

12:56 | At the Finish Svindal and Miller are talking about the race.

12:57 | Now the last of the top racers: Hannes Reichelt.

12:57 | The Austrian skis well at the top.

12:57 | Reichelt is the first skier who can leave Miller behind at the second interim time.

12:58 | But in the Ciaslat meadow he is considerably back.

12:58 | How did Miller manage to fly over the Ciaslat?

12:58 | Reichelt is at the Finish: 15th place. He slowed down on the Ciaslat.

13:02 | The second Italian skier is on the course: Matteo Marsaglia.

13:03 | But he is having difficulties in the Ciaslat.

13:03 | At the Finish Marsaglia, the Crazy Horse of the "Azzurri", is 13th right in front of Innerhofer.

13:04 | Watch out: Jan Hudec! He was fourth in Lake Louise.

13:04 | Hudec is doing really, really well.

13:04 | 7th place with 0.83 seconds delay.

13:04 | The course still has potential.

13:04 | Maybe Beat Feuz can take advantage of this and save the Swiss team.

13:04 | Feuz is extremely fast at the top.

13:05 | He is ahead 0.14 seonds at the interim time.

13:05 | Feuz is in the lead, unbelievable!

13:06 | 0.3 seconds ahead of Bode Miller.

13:07 | Maybe the next Italian, Peter Fill, can take advantage now!

13:07 | No, Fill is already 0.5 seconds back.

13:08 | Fill is 15th and therefore, the best of the Italian team

13:09 | Werner Heel is on the course. He has already won a Super G here.

13:09 | But that's a long time ago. Today he only makes 28th place with 2 seconds delay.

13:10 | Yannick Bertrand is better than Heel. He is as fast as Miller at the top.

13:10 | But Bertrand loses and only reaches the 25th position.

13:11 | Now the World Cup oldie Patrick Jaerbyn.

13:11 | The 42-year-old survived a spectacular road accident on his way to Val Gardena.

13:11 | Jaerbyn was third here in 2008, but today he is last.

13:14 | Innerhofer: Good at the top, too wide at the bottom. I think I can do really well again in a few weeks.

13:14 | The best 30 skiers are at the Finish.

13:15 | We will, of course, continue to report until the end of the race.

13:15 | The first to go out in today's Super G: Tommy Ford (USA) slipped but he managed not to fall.

13:15 | The Slovenian Andrej Sporn is on the piste.

13:16 | Sporn is very fast at the top.

13:16 | But he is losing continuously.

13:16 | At the Finish he is ranked 22nd.

13:17 | Good race by Andrew Weibrecht (USA): 14th place.

13:18 | But watch out now: Hans Olsson. The Swede dominated the downhill training runs.

13:19 | Olsson is really fast at the top.

13:20 | But at the bottom the Swede cannot compete with the best skiers.

13:20 | 11th place for Olsson.

13:22 | Careful: Matthias Mayer (AUT) is skiing well.

13:22 | He is 14th after his first race in Val Gardena.

13:23 | He is better than the first of the Italian team.

13:23 | The best Italian is Peter Fill in eighth place.

13:25 | Andreas Romar from Finland is going fast.

13:25 | With bib number 40 he places himself 6th with 0.86 seconds delay.

13:28 | The weather is getting better as is the piste: Rok Perko is proving this right now!

13:29 | The Slovenian is 14th.

13:30 | The leaders cannot afford to lie back yet as anything could happen, quite likely one or other surprise.

13:41 | Another skier who could ski into the top: Max Franz (AUT)

13:41 | The Austrian achieves 5th place with bib number 54!

13:41 | Max Franz is the cousin of the former world class skier Werner Franz.

13:49 | Tobias Stechert, who already did well in the downhill training, is also skiing well in the Super G.

13:49 | 14th place for Stechert and that with bib number 58.

13:49 | Maybe ex world champion Patrick Staudacher can also take advantage now.

13:50 | No, Staudacher landed in 49th place.

13:50 | Another ten racers are waiting to go.

14:02 | Right, the race has now finished. All 69 skiers are in the Finish area.

14:02 | The prize giving is taking place at the Finish now.

14:02 | Goodbye for today and we will be back again tomorrow for the downhill.