Sports writing (EFE).- The Canadian James Crawford was proclaimed this Thursday, surprisingly, super-giant world champion by winning the test of that discipline in the Alpine Ski World Championships in Courchevel and Meribel, in which he was relegated, by a single hundredth to second place to the Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde.
Crawford, 25, without victories in the World Cup, but with an Olympic bronze -in the combined Games in Beijing last year- covered the 1,857 meters of the L’Eclipse track, starting at 1,880 meters of altitude and a difference of 590- in a winning time of one minute, seven seconds and 22 hundredths, one less than Kilde; and with a 26 advantage over the Frenchman Alexis Pinturault, who added bronze in the ‘super’ to Tuesday’s gold in the combined.
