Erik Guay scores the upset with Men's World Cup Super-G win

In a result that surprised even him, Canada's Erik Guay won today's Men's World Cup Super-G race. He beat out Croatia's Ivica Kostelic and Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, second and third respectively.

Did Erik expect this win? "Absolutely not", he said. "I thought about it a lot though and I knew I had a small chance. I had no pressure on me at all, all I had to do was go very hard".

This was 28-year-old Erik's third World Cup win of his career. His finishing time of 1:26.36 was just enough to edge out Kostelic (1:26.39) and Svindal (1:26.63). It was also enough to give him the Super-G Crystal Globe as the overall winner in the discipline for the season.

"I love it here", he continued. "The course is great and I hope I can learn some German by next February".

Overall World Cup leader Carlo Janka finished 11th in this race. His stiffest rival, Benjamin Raich, finished sixth---not earning enough points to take the top spot from Janka. "Tomorrow (Friday) is a new race, an open race, we will both try and get some more points," said Janka.

Added Raich, "I knew it would be a hard nut to crack (to take the lead), but I just did my best, I can't do more than that. If you give everything and it's not enough you just have to tell yourself you did your best. I didn't expect him (Janka) to win (the downhill on Wednesday), that was quite a surprise. I now have to do my best over the next two days."