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Friday, December 12, 2008

Versus will be airing Birds of Prey coverage on Saturday and Sunday, December 13-14


If you missed the action from Beaver Creek for the 2008 Audi Birds of Prey World Cup Race Week have no fear... you can watch it for the first time or relive all the action from the comfort of your couch on the Versus Network (formerly OLN).

Versus will be airing Birds of Prey coverage on Saturday and Sunday, December 13-14, with additional shows on Saturday, December 20. The action will get underway December 13 at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (4 p.m. MST) with an hour-long show on the first half of the Downhill competition. The second half of the show will air December 14 at 4 p.m. Eastern time (2 p.m. Mountain).

Be sure to check out the coverage to relive Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal’s dramatic and emotional comeback victory on the same Birds of Prey course that ended his season one year ago. The Downhill show will chronicle not only Svindal’s win, but will also follow the dynamic run of runner-up Marco Buechel of Liechtenstein and American Steven Nyman’s seventh place finish, not to mention Bode Miller and Andrew Weibrecht’s spectacular spills.

Televised race action will continue on Saturday, December 20, with back-to-back airings of the Super-G and Giant Slalom races. The Super-G show will get things started at 5 p.m. Eastern (3 p.m. Mountain), while the Giant Slalom will bring down the curtain on the 2008 Audi Birds of Prey at 6 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Mountain).

Svindal will once again take center stage, courtesy of his second win in Super-G, along with the return of Austrian veteran Hermann Maier to the podium with his runner-up showing. The weekend will come to a dynamic end as Austrian Benjamin Raich edges American Ted Ligety by a mere one one-hundredth of a second to claim the Giant Slalom crown, while Svindal earns his third Birds of Prey podium with a third place finish.

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