Adrien Theaux of France was fastest on a training run for the longest downhill course on the World Cup circuit on Thursday.
Theaux raced the storied
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Max Franz, Mayer’s Austria teammate, was third
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On the fastest section racers see all season, a top speed of 144.2 kph (89.6 mph) was clocked by Hannes Reichelt of Austria. The 2015 winner and three-time runner-up here won Wednesday’s practice run.
The World Cup record of 161.9 kph (100.6 mph) was set at Wengen in 2013 by Frenchman Johan Clarey, who placed sixth on Thursday.
The three-race Wengen meeting opens on Friday with a combined event.
It will start without former Olympic and overall World Cup champion Carlo Janka, who is trying to nurse a serious knee injury without having season-ending surgery.
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The Swiss team said the 31-year-old Janka has decided he is not ready to race this weekend.
Janka has targeted an unlikely qualification for the Feb. 9-25 Pyeongchang Games, having won a World Cup super-G at Jeongseon in 2016. It was one of only two men’s test event races on the Olympic speed course.
LeBron James sent Toronto into summer vacation for the third straight season as the Cleveland Cavaliers completed a series sweep of the Raptors with a 128-93 win in Game 4 on Monday night to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
James finished with 29 points, 11 assists and spent some of the final 7:38 dancing near the bench during Cleveland’s 10th straight playoff win over Toronto
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Kevin Love added 23 points and J.R. Smith 15 for the Cavs, who can now rest while waiting for the Boston-Philadelphia semifinal series to end.
Jonas Valanciunas scored 18 and Kyle Lowry had 10 assists to lead the exasperated Raptors. Toronto’s frustration hit its peak late in the third when All-Star DeMar DeRozan was ejected for a flagrant foul.
76ERS 103, CELTICS 92
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – T.J. McConnell turned a surprise start into the save of the season and Dario Saric scored 25 points to help the 76ers stave off elimination in a win over the Celtics in Game 4.
The Sixers still face daunting odds headed into Game 5 and trailing 3-1 in the Eastern Conference semifinals: No NBA team has ever won a series down 3-0.
McConnell had a career-high 19 points
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He was just what coach Brett Brown needed in a must-win game.
With NBA teams down 3-0 having lost all 129 series, the Sixers may need more than spirit to pull off this stunner.
Jayson Tatum led the Celtics with 20 points and Marcus Morris had 17.
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