Meaningful or not, Jansrud tops training

By Chris Freud

BEAVER CREEK — Of course, it’s only downhill training, but with that disclaimer, the scoreboard after the first day of training at Birds of Prey on Wednesday at Beaver Creek was looking rather familiar.Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud, the defending Birds of Prey downhill champion, clocked the fastest time, punching in at 1 minute, 44.04 seconds, followed by Switzerland’s Carlo Janka (1:44.29) and Germany’s Josef Ferstl (1:44.30).The field has another practice run today at 10:45 a.m. with the downhill on tap for Friday at the same time.Jansrud wasn’t ready to pop the cork on some champagne after taking Wednesday’s training. He had …

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