{"id":1305798,"date":"2019-03-15T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T02:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=451402"},"modified":"2019-03-15T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T02:26:14","slug":"germanys-stefan-luitz-wins-birds-of-prey-gs-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/germanys-stefan-luitz-wins-birds-of-prey-gs-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Stefan Luitz wins Birds of Prey GS \u2026 again"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEAVER CREEK \u2014 This has got to be the longest World Cup giant slalom ever.<\/p>\n

As you might recall, Germany\u2019s Stefan Luitz won the Birds of Prey giant slalom<\/a> back in December, upsetting Austria\u2019s Marcel Hirscher. It was Luitz\u2019 first World Cup win and a feel-good story after he had overcome multiple injuries.<\/p>\n

As you also might recall, Luitz was stripped of that win<\/a> after photos of the German using oxygen, which is against International Ski Federation rules, between the two runs surfaced. That gave the win to Austrian Marcel Hirscher.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Court for Arbitration of Sport granted Luitz\u2019 appeal, which means, that the German actually did win his first World Cup victory back in December along with a check for $45,000.<\/p>\n

FIS said in a statement Friday that it accepts the decision, so this is final. Luitz really did win.<\/p>\n

So that increases Luitz\u2019 career win total to one, while Hirscher\u2019s total plummets to 67. Switzerland\u2019s Thomas Tumler\u2019s first podium finish is still a podium, but it\u2019s gone from third to second to third.<\/p>\n

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You will be quizzed on this later.<\/p>\n

The case<\/h2>\n

FIS\u2019 Anti-Doping Rules, or more specifically Article 20.4, prohibits the use of oxygen. It may not seem like much, but Beaver Creek\u2019s Birds of Prey does have the highest elevation of any racecourse on the World Cup circuit.<\/p>\n

Luitz\u2019 legal team argued successfully that Article 20.4 of FIS\u2019 ADR says that the World Anti-Doping Code is to overrule the skiing federation\u2019s regulations, and World Anti-Doping Code does not consider oxygen a doping agent.<\/p>\n

This is a lot of alphabet soup, but it\u2019s probably not going to be a good idea to be seen anywhere near an oxygen mask during the 2019 Birds of Prey races.<\/p>\n

Where are they now?<\/h2>\n

What made Luitz\u2019 initial win such a big deal was that his career had been marred by injuries. He had done his left ACL in 2013 and his right one in 2017. While he does get the win, this entire process has to have taken some of the shine off the occasion.<\/p>\n

Since Birds of Prey, Luitz finished fifth in a parallel giant slalom in Alta Badia, Italy, and fourth in a slalom in Saalbach, Austria. However, he crashed in the Adelboden, Switzerland, slalom, injuring his shoulder. He had surgery last month, according to Ski Racing Magazine.<\/p>\n

Hirscher drops to second place, but the loss of 20 points does no harm to him. He has already clinched the GS World Cup championship for the fifth straight season. He\u2019s also clinched an unprecedented eighth consecutive overall World Cup crown, going into this weekend\u2019s tech races at the World Cup finals Soldeu, Andorra.<\/p>\n

Tumler has scuffled for most of the season. His best result since Beaver Creek was ninth in the Alta Badia GS.<\/p>\n

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