Scheyer leads 1st run of combined; Shiffrin 5th
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Christine Scheyer of Austria is in the lead after the downhill run of the Alpine combined race at the Beijing Olympics. Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States is in fifth place.
Shiffrin is 0.56 seconds behind Scheyer, who has never won a medal at a major championship. American Keely Cashman is sitting in seventh, 0.11 off of Shiffrin.
They’ll compete in the second part of the event, the slalom, Thursday afternoon Beijing time.
Scheyer is 0.01 ahead of Czech skier Ester Ledecka, who is attempting to win a second event at a second straight Olympics after successfully defending her gold in snowboarding’s parallel giant slalom.
Ramona Siebenhofer of Austria is 0.14 behind in third.
The combined adds the times from one downhill run and one slalom run.
Shiffrin’s best event for years has been the slalom. She won a gold medal in that discipline at age 18 at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. But she also only made it through five gates in the slalom last week before skiing out. She also did not finish the giant slalom.
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