Cuche takes the double at the Hahnenkamm - Austrian hopes lie with the slalom or after race party

Seeing a Swiss racer on the top of the podium at the Hahnenkamm race weekend in Kitzbuhel is not a pleasant sight for Austrians, therefore the second appearance in 2 days for Switzerland’s Didier Cuche will hurt greatly. Fully deserved as one of the pre-race favourites, Cuche delivered yet again to prove that the Swiss reign in the men’s FIS. Race results from the 2010 Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm men’s downhill on the Streif are as follows:

1    Didier Cuche    SUI    1:53.74
2    Andrej Sporn    SLO    1:54.02
3    Werner Heel    ITA    1:54.13
4    Mario Scheiber    AUT    1:54.25
5    Aksel Lund Svindal    NOR    1:54.42
6    Hans Grugger    AUT    1:54.49
7    Ivica Kostelic    CRO    1:54.71
8    Didier Defago    SUI    1:54.82
9    Bode Miller    USA    1:54.90
10    Natko Zrncic-Dim    CRO    1:54.97
11    Carlo Janka    SUI    1:54.99
12    Romed Baumann    AUT    1:55.22
13    Patrik Järbyn    SWE    1:55.27
14    Erik Guay    CAN    1:55.29
15    Marco Büchel    LIE    1:55.39
16    Andrej Jerman    SLO    1:55.44
17    Silvan Zurbriggen    SUI    1:55.46
18    Erik Fisher    USA    1:55.49
18=    Marco Sullivan    USA    1:55.49
20    Manuel Osborne-Paradis    CAN    1:55.51
21    Stefan Thanei    ITA    1:55.54
22    Georg Streitberger    AUT    1:55.63
23    Tobias Grünenfelder    SUI    1:55.68
24    Steven Nyman    USA    1:55.70
25    Dominik Paris    ITA    1:55.75
26    Andrew Weibrecht    USA    1:55.83
27    Klaus Kröll    AUT    1:55.84
28    Adrien Theaux    FRA    1:55.98
29    Yannick Bertrand    FRA    1:55.99
30    David Poisson    FRA    1:56.01

National pride may be restored in the after race party where Austria has few peers usually, whilst the slalom tomorrow will be their final chance salvage pride on snow that is not strewn with plastic cups and beer cans.