VAL D’ISÈRE, France — Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the super-combined Monday at the world championships after his three closest challengers failed to finish their slalom runs.
Bode Miller skied out in the slalom, which was raced under floodlights, when he led the field by more than two seconds.
Svindal won in 2 minutes, 23.0 seconds for the downhill and slalom runs on the Face de Bellevarde course.
Julien Lizeroux of France was second, 0.90 behind, and Natko Zrncic-Dim of Croatia was third, 1.58 back. Svindal led after the morning downhill with an advantage of 0.04 over Miller.
Miller had been second after the downhill, where he had a spectacular recovery after almost losing control on the bottom half of the course. He steadied himself after almost losing his balance in the top half and was well ahead on his time splits, but couldn’t recover from a second mistake and straddled a gate.
Frenchmen Jean-Baptiste Grange and Adrien Theaux were fourth and third after the downhill but both skied out.
Albrecht remains in coma
INNSBRUCK, Austria — Doctors slowed down a procedure to wake Swiss skier Daniel Albrecht from an induced coma because of a complication affecting his lungs.
Albrecht, 25, has been kept unconscious with brain and lung injuries after his downhill training crash Jan. 22. Doctors had to remove liquid from Albrecht’s lungs, which resulted from an infection of the organ.
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