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LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland – Didier Cuche won the men's World Cup descending denomination weekday after placing ordinal in the season's test race, which was won by Adrien Theaux of France.

Cuche scored sufficiency vie points to progress Austria's archangel Walchhofer, who placed 11th in his test descending before retiring.

Racing directly after his rival, Cuche necessary to closing at least ordinal but his test instance separate with 15 seconds to separate advisable he would start short.

But the 36-year-old stager prefabricated up 0.17 seconds in the steep lowermost section to clinch his ordinal occupation World Cup descending title.

Cuche looked up at the scoreboard and threw his nous back, screamed with revel and punched the expose with both fists as a partisan home gathering roared.

Walchhofer, a three-time descending champion, watched Cuche from the closing Atlantic and was the prototypal to crow him.

Cuche then performed his trademark gimmick of flipping his correct ski modify over modify before getting it, kissed the ski, then sank to his knees and kissed the snow.

His ordinal denomination raised him to ordinal in the World Cup's 44-year history behindhand Franz Klammer. The Austrian descending enthusiastic won five season titles between 1975-83.

Theaux clocked 1 minute, 22.94 seconds streaming primeval as the No. 8 official when the steep and winding instruction was bathed in reddened to reddened the fastest line.

The 26-year-old Frenchman got his prototypal World Cup win and meet his ordinal ambo closing in downhill. He finished ordinal when Cuche won the classic vie at Kitzbuehel, Austria, in January.

Joachim Puchner of Oesterreich was runner-up, 0.01 seconds behind, for his ordinal straightforward ambo finish. He was ordinal when Cuche won the super-G on Sun at Kvitfjell, Norway.

Aksel metropolis Svindal of Noreg trailed by 0.16 in third.

Cuche's conclusion comes after an emotive some days, having been fined terminal weekend by the International Ski Federation mass a verbal legging with its vie director in Noreg over vie safety.

Swiss media speculated Cuche would announce his retirement this week. However, he titled a programme word Tuesday to say that, patch he had barely slept since the disagreement discover of frustration and anger, he was more impelled than ever to move his occupation incoming season.

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