With 40 racers having completed the Men's Super G competition at the Sochi Olympics this morning, Bode Miller in joint bronze medal position with Canadian racer Jan Hudec, looks set to become the oldest Alpine skier to medal at an Olympics.
36 year old Miller, who is competing in his fifth Olympics having first raced at Nagano in 1998, and has already won five Olympic medals including one gold, was .53 of a second behind winner Kjetil Jansrud of Norway. Bode's fellow American Andrew Weibrecht was in silver position .3 of a second off the winning time. Miller has the most Olympic medals of any US ski racer.
The start of the Men's Super-G Ski Race was rescheduled to start an hour early in sa bid from the organisers to deal with the heat problems Sochi has been suffering, in common with the Vancouver Games four years ago. It started at 10am rather than an 11am local time.
Yesterday it was 10C when the women's Super G started at 11am and more than a third of competitors failed to finish. Several racers blamed the snow conditions although the Austrian coach who set the course said it was a technical course and that he was surprised how many racers made errors.