US ski star Bode gets back to winning ways

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BORMIO, Italy (AFP) — US ski star Bode Miller got back to winning ways on Saturday by claiming his first World Cup victory of the season in the men's downhill.

The 30-year-old negotiated the notoriously difficult Stelvio piste in a time of 2min 00.57sec to take the gold ahead of Austrian Andreas Buder at 0.45sec with Canada's Jan Hudec third at 0.54sec.

Miller, the world downhill and super-G champion in 2005 at Bormio, notched up his 26th World Cup victory and first since his downhill success at Wengen, Switzerland on January 13, 2007.

"Today I finally managed a clean run despite the difficult course. My legs were burning in the final part," Miller said.

Among the favourites, Swiss Didier Cuche finished fourth at 0.66sec while an error left Austrian...