Ok my facts were a bit off, I had read some story last year about last years event....This is the latest on this year.....there were 3 races, Cedric finished 11 seconds behind super-g winner Daron Rahlves.
Snow King 2003 / 2004 elected in Kvitfjell
08.03.2004 - Almost immediately after the last Super-G-skier had reached the finish-line in the FIS-World Cup this afternoon, 12 of the best and gustiest downhill mountain bikers overcame the original slope of the Olympic Games 1994 in Lillehammer, the Olympiabakke. With a new speed record of 123,8 kph and breathtaking action the high-tech-bikers defied the unfamiliar icy ground and reached the Olympiabakke-finishing-area. Only the locals Sondre Norland (NOR) and Espen Johnson (NOR) were involved in a slight accident with the German Arne Tschugg and finished a minute later.
As the Frenchman Cedric Gracia took the Siemens mobile Snow King Crown in Garmisch (Germany) on February 1st, the other favourites like the second of Garmisch Guido Tschugg (GER) or the third Matti Lehikoinen (FIN) wanted to attack once again – and they did! Lehikoinen followed Gracia immediately, but came in second – just less than two seconds behind the Snow King leader. The German Guido Tschugg finished at fourth position. George Atherton from Britain came in third.
'Matti just follwed me directly, because he knew that I would choose the best and fastest way, the Super-G line,' says Cedric Gracia with a smile. With his result of 1:45.43 time, the Snow King Cedric Gracia (FRA) was just 11 seconds slower than the Super-G winner Daron Rahlves (USA, 1:34.00).
More than thousand spectators and cheering young Snow King fans - already yesterday, the riders were asked for many autographs - followed the spectacular race: high speed, long jumps and a pursuit like in the movies. And all that happened under a blue and sunny sky and on a well-prepared slope. When the riders reached the final part of the slope and could be seen from the stadium in the finishing area the spectators expressed their astonishment about the extraordinary race with a loud cheering. The 12 riders were celebrated in the finishing area.
The overall winner of the Siemens mobile Snow King series 2003/2004, Cedric Gracia, was awarded with a prize money of € 5.000 plus the new Siemens mobile phone MC-60 in the stylish X-design. He used the mobile phone immediately to send his mother the happy message: 'Mom, I won!'.