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Austria's Matthias Mayer reacts in the finish area following his
run in the men's World Cup super-G ski race at Lake Louise,
Alberta, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019.
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Emily Sweeney, of the United States, celebrates her second-place finish after completing her
Associated Press Olympic champion
second run of a women's World Cup luge event in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019.

Germans win 6 medals, USA 5 Mayer edges Paris for

at Lake Placid luge World Cup World Cup super-G win

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) bullet-proof hard. You real- That was Latvia's first gold LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) super-G for almost three
— Tucker West and Em- ly had to lay it all out, but it on this track at Mount Van — Olympic champion Mat- years, though the Austri-
ily Sweeney both capped seemed to work out. It feels Hoevenberg, which has thias Mayer ended Dominik an later took gold at the
double-medal weekends great to be back. It's been hosted a total of 60 dif- Paris' victory streak to win 2018 Pyeongchang Winter
for USA Luge on Sunday, a little bit of a hiatus with ferent international luge the first World Cup super- Games.
the final day of the World speed, so it's encouraging events. Also Sunday, Aus- G of the Alpine ski season "A win in the first race of
Cup stop on the Ameri- to see the speed again." tria's Jonas Mueller won his on Sunday. Mayer raced the season is very impor-
cans' home track at Mount Julia Taubitz led the Ger- second consecutive World down the sun-bathed Ca- tant. Couldn't be better for
Van Hoevenberg. mans with two golds — win- Cup men's luge race of the nadian course 0.40 sec- me," said Mayer, who holds
West won silver medals on ning the women's sprint on season, narrowly holding onds faster than Paris, who an early lead in the overall
Sunday in both the men's Sunday, after prevailing in off West for the gold. Muel- won the previous three su- World Cup standings after
race and men's sprint. the women's regular race ler went on later in the day per-G races last season, in- four events.
Sweeney added a bronze Saturday. Taubitz was the to win bronze in the men's cluding taking gold at the Thomas Dressen followed
in the women's sprint on lone non-American in the sprint, edging Olympic sil- world championships. his downhill win over Paris
Sunday to her women's top four of the women's ver medalist Chris Mazdzer For the second time in the with a 10th place Sunday
silver from Saturday, and sprint, with Britcher second, of the U.S. for the final med- weekend, Italy's Paris was to complete his first race
Summer Britcher won a sil- Sweeney third and Ashley al spot in that event. knocked out of the leader's meeting after a one-year
ver in the women's sprint for Farquharson fourth with Italy's Dominik Fischnal- box into the runner-up spot injury absence.
the U.S. by far her best World Cup ler won the men's bronze. and there was another tie The circuit now moves to
It was a long-awaited finish. Russia's Roman Re- West was the leader after for third place. Beaver Creek, Colorado,
bounce-back day for West, pilov won the men's sprint, one run of that race, setting Vincent Kriechmayr of Aus- where Dressen crashed last
who won only one medal his fourth career gold at a track record. But Mueller tria and Mauro Caviezel year in downhill, sustaining
— other than in team relay Mount Van Hoevenberg, rallied in the second heat, of Switzerland clocked the a serious right knee injury.
events — in the past two while Lativan brothers An- thwarting West's bid for same time, trailing the win- Travis Ganong was the
World Cup seasons. dris Sics and Juris Sics won what would have been his ner by 0.49. highest-ranked American
"Today we had track re- the doubles sprint gold ear- fourth career World Cup Mayer's sixth career World on Sunday in 12th place,
cord ice," West said. "It was lier Sunday. gold.q Cup win was his first in trailing Mayer by 1.37.q

Larrazábal birdies last to clinch victory at Alfred Dunhill

MALELANE, South Africa just ahead of Sweden's Joel I didn't think I was going event where he started that tie for third. Besseling
(AP) — Pablo Larrazábal Sjöholm. Larrazábal said he to play," said Larrazábal. "I his professional career 12 led or held a share of the
won the European Tour's struggled with blisters on his couldn't put my shoe on, I years ago. lead through much of the
season-opening Alfred feet throughout the final couldn't walk to the buggy. Sjöholm's final-round 69 al- final round but he made
Dunhill Championship on round, when he fell three I really struggled on the most saw him through to his bogey on the last after his
Sunday after losing a three- shots behind at one point. back nine. I have a big first European Tour victory. approach flew too far and
shot overnight lead and He made a litany of errors blister on my right toe and Charl Schwartzel (70) fin- landed among some rocks
then making three birdies and closed with a 75 after I said to myself 'If Tiger can ished tied for third at 6 un- behind the green.
on his last four holes for a six bogeys and a double win a U.S. Open with a bro- der on his return to tour- That opened the way for
dramatic one-stroke vic- bogey, but his rousing fina- ken leg…' and I just fought nament action for the first Larrazábal to win it on the
tory. le still enabled him to clinch hard." time in eight months be- last. He laid up with his sec-
Larrazábal birdied the par- a fifth European Tour title The 36-year-old Larrazábal's cause of a wrist injury. Bran- ond and then fired his third
5 No. 18 as the Spaniard and first in four years. victory at Leopard Creek den Grace (73) and Wil shot in close to tap in for
finished 8 under overall and "I woke up this morning and Country Club came at the Besseling (74) were also in birdie and the win.q