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Top Canadian in men鈥檚 alpine super-G finishes ninth as Austrian nabs gold

Dustin Cook of Lac-Sainte-Marie, Que., was the top Canadian in the men鈥檚 alpine super-G on Friday with a ninth-place time of one minute 25.23 seconds. Matthias Mayer of Austria won the race. Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Invermere, sa国际传媒
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Austria's MatthiasÊMayer makes a jump during the men's super-G at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Jeongseon, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018.

Dustin Cook of Lac-Sainte-Marie, Que., was the top Canadian in the men鈥檚 alpine super-G on Friday with a ninth-place time of one minute 25.23 seconds. Matthias Mayer of Austria won the race.

Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Invermere, sa国际传媒, was 22nd, Broderick Thompson of Whistler, sa国际传媒, was 23rd and Toronto鈥檚 Jack Crawford skied off course early and didn鈥檛 finish.

Harvey was in a medal position midway through the men鈥檚 15k, but admitted he didn鈥檛 have the acceleration to reach the podium.

鈥淚t was going well. I didn鈥檛 break, but when it鈥檚 a super day, you accelerate near the end,鈥 he said. 鈥淢e, I just stayed at the same rhythm and there were some that accelerated.

鈥淚 wasn鈥檛 able to accelerate at the finish like I had to do to get on the podium.鈥

Switzerland鈥檚 Dario Cologna won his third gold medal in the distance and fourth overall. He was dominant, beating Norway鈥檚 Simen Hegstad Krueger in 18.3 seconds. Russian Denis Spitsov was third.