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Mauro Caviezel won the men's super-G event in the alpine skiing World Cup on Sunday, his first ever crystal globe, after the final race in the discipline was cancelled due to poor weather conditions. The decision by race organisers, due to rain and fog on the Kvitfjell piste, means that Swiss Caviezel finishes just three points ahead of Vincent Kriechmayr in the event's final standings, with overall standings leader Aleksander Aamodt Kilde a further 26 points back in third. Sunday's event was cancelled just days after the season-ending finals in Cortina d'Ampezzo were shelved due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Kilde's campaign to win the overall World Cup will now go down to the final two races of the season, a slalom and giant slalom at Kranjska Gora in Slovenia. With each race win bringing 100 points, the Norwegian is 54 ahead of Alexis Pinturault, who has won three giant slalom races this season, while countryman Henrik Kristoffersen is 161 points back. Kilde took the lead on Saturday from Pinturault after finishing second in the last downhill of the season, with the Frenchman failing to score points. rg/td/jh
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