Guay golden, Osborne-Paradis takes bronze in world alpine championship super-G
Erik Guay phoned up the mountain to teammate Manuel Osborne-Paradis after laying down a winning time in the super-G at the world alpine ski championship Wednesday.
His scouting report helped put two Canadian men on the world championship podium for the first time in the 44-year history of the biennial event.
At 35, Guay became the oldest skier to win a world alpine title. Osborne-Paradis collected the first world championship medal of his career with a bronze on his 33rd birthday.
“The fact that I’m able to share the podium with Manny really does make it that much more special,” Guay told The Canadian Press from St. Moritz, Switzerland. “I knew I had to ski with a lot of intensity on this kind of course. Everything sort of fell into place today. I was good on the jumps, I was aerodynamic and my line was on point.”