Olympic champion Mayer leads Austrian downhill sweep (The Associated Press)

SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — Olympic champion Matthias Mayer led an Austrian sweep of the podium in a World Cup downhill on home snow Saturday. Mayer clocked 1 minute, 49.83 seconds down the rarely used Schneekristall-Zwolfer course to finish a slim 0.02 seconds ahead of Max Franz. Hannes Reichelt placed third, 0.21 behind. It was a big rebound from the recently concluded world championships in Colorado, where Austria failed to place a racer in the top 10 of the men’s downhill for the first time in the history of the event – stretching back to 1931.