KVITFJELL, Norway — Erik Guay of Canada ended three years of near misses and captured his second career World Cup victory Sunday, narrowly winning a super-G that Bode Miller skipped.
Guay edged early leader Hannes Reichelt of Austria on the 1994 Olympic course to win his first race since a 2007 downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been on top of the podium,” Guay said. “I took a lot of risks and it paid off. . . . I’ve had a lot of close calls, fourths and fifths, and I am going to push hard in the last races next week and see what happens.”
Guay’s home Olympics in Vancouver also produced two fifth-place finishes despite bigger expectations.
This time, the close call went Guay’s way and he edged Reichelt by .02 seconds.
Olympic champion Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway and Tobias Gruenenfelder of Switzerland tied for third place.
Miller, who took silver in the super-G at Vancouver, skipped the two races in Norway. U.S. teammate Andrew Weibrecht, who took super-G bronze at the Olympics, dislocated his shoulder in a crash in Saturday’s downhill and will miss the remainder of the season.
Didier Cuche of Switzerland, who won Saturday’s downhill, was disqualified. His Swiss teammate and Olympic downhill champion, Didier Defago, lost a ski halfway down the course and crashed.
Reichelt was first out of the starting gate and his time topped the board until Guay came down as No. 18.
