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Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's combined

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Date
  
February 21

Winning time
  
2:44.92

Competitors
  
52 from 22 nations

Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's combined

Venue
  
Whistler Creekside Whistler, British Columbia  Canada

The men's super combined competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia. The competition was scheduled for February 16, but was postponed due to weather delays in preceding races; it was held five days later on February 21. American athlete Bode Miller won his only Olympic gold medal, Ivica Kostelić of Croatia won silver, and Silvan Zurbriggen of Switzerland took the bronze.

One major change in this event for the 2010 Olympics was the switch from a traditional dedicated "combined" (K), taking place over one or two days and involving a downhill run and two slalom runs (as the combined had been since its reintroduction to the Olympics in 1988), to a one-day "super combined" (SC), consisting of a downhill run in the morning and one slalom run in the afternoon. The super combined format lessens the advantage of the slalom specialists.

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Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's combined Wikipedia