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Norway's Kjetil Jansrud races down the Hahnenkamm course during the men's downhill training run of the Alpine Skiing World Cup in Kitzbuehel Radamel Falcao Colombia Jersey , Austria on Tuesday. Photo: CFP
The World Cup downhill in Kitzbuehel, Austria remains the ultimate test for an alpine skier, requiring nerves of steel, courage and raw physical aggression but also the mental ability to safely manage risk on the infamous course.
The "Streif" piste down the Hahnenkamm (rooster's comb) mountain in the beautiful Tirol valley also has a deeper significance as racers tweak their form before next month's World Ski Championships in Colorado.
Tens of thousands of spectators pack into the glitzy resort Marlos Moreno Colombia Jersey , turning the weekend into an unparalleled fiesta glorifying fast alpine skiing, with the finish area situated directly in the center of the town.
They come to see their skiing heroes negotiate the most prestigious speed event in one of the circuit's most iconic locations: Racers touch 100 kilometers per hour within 8.5 seconds of leaving the start and there have been some extremely gruesome crashes, notably Swiss racer Daniel Albrecht in 2009 and Austrian Hans Grugger in 2011.
Saturday's 75th running of the downhill, which made its debut in 1931 Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Colombia Jersey , is over a piste more than 3.3 kilometers long, with racers reaching motorway-coasting speeds of 140 -kilo-meters per hour while being forced into negotiating 80-meter jumps.
The roll of honor on the hill -includes multiple winners Didier Cuche and Franz Klammer, Swiss duo Franz Heinzer and Pirmin Zubriggen, the Canadian "Crazy Canucks" trio of Todd Brooker Jeison Murillo Colombia Jersey , Steve Podborski and Ken Read in the 1980s, and French legend Jean-Claude Killy back in 1967.
Austrian Fritz Strobl won in 1997 and still holds the record time for the full course of 1 minute 51.58 seconds.
Tough test
Not since Lasse Kjus (in additional races in 2004 and 1999) and Atle Skaardal in 1990 has a Norwegian won and the scene could be set for Kjetil Jansrud to step up to the plate in the absence through injury of successful teammate Aksel Lund Svindal.
Jansrud clocked the fastest time in the first training run, at other venues perhaps not always telling, but here in Kitzbuehel James Rodriguez Colombia Jersey , on the ever-testing track, it is a very different story as skiers do not dare to hold back.
"I pushed myself right from the start because you never know how many training sessions you are going to get," said the Norwegian who stormed to Olympic super-G gold in the Sochi Games last year and Beaver Creek downhill victory in December.
Hannes Reichelt, last year's winner from Austria Guillermo Celis Colombia Jersey , was the only athlete able to keep up with Jansrud's pace, even though he was not left -completely satisfied with his performance.
"We have to get to grips with each other," the 34-year-old Austrian said of the slope.
Reichelt claimed last weekend's downhill at Switzerland's Wengen on the Lauberhorn piste, the longest downhill on the World Cup calendar Fredy Guarin Colombia Jersey , to see off Swiss duo and previous Wengen winners Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka.
Jansrud, the leader of the overall World Cup standings, took fifth.
One racer not to have competed in Wengen was former Olympic and world champion Bode Miller, the 37-year-old American saying he was yet to fully recover from back surgery in November.
Miller is uncertain for the downhill Frank Fabra Colombia Jersey , but the four-time former world champion and two-time downhill runner-up here did finish the first training run.
"The track in kitz is looking pretty mean this year. I haven't seen it like this in a long time. #managainstnature," Miller, an outspoken fan of demanding courses, later tweeted.
Daron Rahlves was the last American winner of the Hahnenkamm downhill Felipe Aguilar Colombia Jersey , in 2003, with only Buddy Werner (1959) having previously won it for the US team.
Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May(L) delivers a speech after arriving at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain on July 13, 2016. Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May arrived at Downing Street on Wednesday after gaining consent from Queen Elizabeth II. (XinhuaHan Yan)
by Larry Neild
LONDON， July 14 (Xinhua) -- The junior minister who pulled out of the government leadership race to pave the way for Theresa May to become British prime minister was Thursday rewarded with a big front-bench job.
Andrea Leadsom， former minister of state at the department of energy and climate change， was named as secretary of state for environment，food and rural affairs， giving her a major job in May's Downing Street cabinet.
Leadsom pulled out of the race over the leadership of the governing Conservative Party on Monday， leaving May as the only contender， effectively throwing the keys of Number 10 to her rival.
May spent her first full day as prime minister by appointing more politicians to her front bench， at the same time firing a number of well-known politicians， including Justice Secretary Michael Gove.
Johnson has been made foreign secretary， replacing Philip Hammond who was made Chancellor of the Exchequer replacing George Osborne.
It emerged Thursday that May had effectively fired Osborne by saying that she did not want him in her front bench cabinet team.
May continued to wield the political axe， giving a number of Cameron's ministers and secretaries their marching orders， in some cases to make space in the cabinet for more female ministers. Other ministers decided to leave the government.
Gove was replaced as Justice Secretary by Liz Truss while Education Secretary Nicky Morgan was also fired and replaced by the former international development secretary Justine Greening.
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has also left the government， but Cameron's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt， caught up in a major wrangle with junior doctors over new working conditions in the NHS， has kept his job.
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