Alpine skiing-Bank’s downhill pain, Hirscher’s gain (Reuters)
By Steve Keating BEAVER CREEK, Colorado, Feb 8 (Reuters) – A crash in a downhill is never a good thing but Ondrej Bank’s pain was a stroke of good fortune for Austria’s Marcel Hirscher who won the gold medal in the super combined at the alpine ski world championships on Sunday. Instead of leaving the Austrian outside the top 30 and forced to deal with a rutted and mushy course, Hirscher took full advantage and turned in the day’s best run to clinch a surprise gold medal ahead of Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud.