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Alpine skiing - Paris takes men's Super-G gold at world championships

Alpine skiing - Paris takes men's Super-G gold at world championships
Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine World Ski Championships - Men's Super G - Are, Sweden - February 6, 2019 - Italy's Dominik Paris reacts after finishing. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger Copyright  LEONHARD FOEGER(Reuters)
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ARE, Sweden (Reuters) - Italy's Dominik Paris won men's Super-G gold at the Alpine skiing world championships on Wednesday, while retiring Norwegian great Aksel Lund Svindal finished well down the field, according to unofficial results.

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Paris, wearing bib number three on a bright afternoon in Are, skied aggressively to cross the line 0.09 of a second faster than France's Johan Clarey and Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr who tied for silver.

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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