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Beaver Creek– The U.S. ski team squandered a great opportunity in Thursday’s super-combined World Cup after Bode Miller and Ted Ligety, Olympic combined champ, put themselves in a great position to reach the podium.
Miller had the fastest time in the morning’s downhill, but went of out of the slalom in the afternoon and was disqualified. Miller had more than a two-second lead over Norway’s Axsel Lund Svindal after the downhill, and could have won easily if he had managed to get to the finish line.
Ligety, a slalom specialist, had a good run in the downhill, finishing 15th, but had a mediocre slalom run and finished 10th for the event.
Svindal won the race, followed by Switzerland’s Marc Berthod and Austria’s Rainer Schoenfelder.
