For some of the skiers, the super-G course was so treacherous and tricky that it was a wipeout waiting to happen. For Matteo Marsaglia, the hill at Beaver Creek, Colo., was just risky enough that it presented an opportunity to finally break through. The 27-year-old Italian took big gambles in places where few others would Saturday for his first World Cup victory. He finished in one minute, 14.68 seconds to edge Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway by 0.27 seconds. Hannes Reichelt of Austria was third, and Ted Ligety of the United States wound up fourth. Calgary's Jan Hudec was 10th, Erik Guay of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was 11th. John Kucera, also from Calgary, was 41st. "If you want to win, you need...
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