VAL DISERE, France -- Norway dominated, Kjetil Jansrud won, Austria struggled.The first downhill of the mens World Cup season on Saturday traced the same path down the sun-soaked Val dIsere course as the super-G one day earlier.Jansrud has gone 2-for-2 in the first speed races with teammate Aksel Lund Svindal defying expectations after a 10-month injury absence to join him again on the podium.Relying on technical skills ahead of pure speed, Jansrud was 0.26 seconds faster than Peter Fill of Italy, the defending World Cup downhill champion, down the 3.4-kilometer (2-mile) Oreiller-Killy course.Its an amazing beginning, said Jansrud, who won the season-long downhill title in 2015. You never know, but I hoped for sure for a start like this.Svindal, who was runner-up on Friday, placed third, trailing 0.33 behind his fellow Norwegian. Only the top three finished in under two minutes.Im very satisfied, said Svindal, who lacked stamina after limited top-level training since rupturing his right ligaments in January. Its a very hard landing (on the jumps) and I took a second before I got my breath.For the second straight day, Norway and Italy filled the podium and the traditionally powerful Austria team was never in contention.The best placed Austrian, in 17th, was Olympic champion Matthias Mayer who came down 1.45 slower than Jansrud.It was a terrible day, Austria team director Hans Pum told The Associated Press. In the last 40 years I cant remember many like this. We have to analyze exactly what has happened.Austrias winless streak in the marquee downhill discipline extended to 13 races since Hannes Reichelt won at Kvitfjell, Norway, in March 2015.Norway has now won eight of those 13 downhills, with Svindal, Jansrud and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde all taking victories for a small but high-class team.Everyone will start screaming in the Austrian media, for sure, said Jansrud, adding he was not surprised at the rival teams result, citing Mayer returning from a back injury and Reichelt slowed by knee pains.We need to have fast Austrians to keep the entertainment coming and the spectators coming, said Jansrud, who took downhill bronze behind Mayer at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.Jansruds win on Saturday was keyed by skiing well through a turning middle section in the shadows where rivals typically lost at least a half-second to him.The lead was threatened by Steven Nyman before the United States racer strayed wide into rough snow midway down. Nyman placed 15th, ending his streak of four straight top-three finishes in downhill.While Jansrud was only 18th fastest at either of the two speed checks, Fill was the only racer to hit 122 kph (76 mph).Im surprised for my performance, said Fill, who took the downhill crystal trophy last season by edging ahead of Svindal, who missed the last five races after crashing at Kitzbuehel, Austria.Austrias slow start is not really my problem, Fill said. They have good skiers. For me, its better that they dont go too fast.Marcel Hirscher, the five-time defending overall World Cup winner, will seek to restore Austrian pride in a giant slalom on Sunday.Val dIsere hosted a World Cup downhill for the first time in 10 seasons.The French resort took over a three-race weekend meeting which was cancelled at Beaver Creek, Colorado, because of lack of snow.LaDainian Tomlinson Jets Jersey . 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They hailed from 12 countries -- Americans won only two of 33 tournaments, the fewest ever.Englands Charley Hull made it an even dozen with her two-stroke CME victory over So Yeon Ryu, the quick-talking, fast-playing, brisk-swinging 20-year-old performing as if she had taken many leads into the final round, when this was the first time. One sure couldnt tell from her scorecard, which was as clean as the lobby floor of the nearby Ritz. Hull shot her second consecutive six-under 66 for a 19-under 269 total and her first LPGA title, and she needed it too, with Ryu closing with a 67.It was a great day to be 20. Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand, who turns 21 on Nov. 23, tied for fourth place after a closing 69. That was good enough, though, to hold off Lydia Ko (tied for 10th) to claim Rolex Player of the Year honors and a $1 million bonus for winning the season-long Race to the CME Globe, an awkward but deadly accurate designation given the LPGAs international trend.Its great. Its like my dream come true, said Jutanugarn, who led the tour with five victories in 2016. I never thought my name could be on this trophy, and right now Im really proud of myself.Ko, who is still No. 1 in the Rolex World Rankings, almost walked off with the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average until South Korean In Gee Chun, all of 22 years old, finished birdie-birdie-birdie to edge the 19-year-old New Zealander. This battle made a photo finish look like a romp as Chun finished with a 69.583 average to Kos 69.596. With the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year award Chun clinched weeks ago, she is the first since Nancy Lopez in 1978 to win both trophies in the same season.Many of the women golfers who have turned professional very young in the past decade or so have been from Asia, but Hull left the amateur ranks at 16 and started playing on the Ladies European Tour as a 17-year-old in 2013. A Solheim Cupper that year, the youngest ever, she had an LET victory but no wins in 51 LPGA starts before teeing off this week.Starting the final round with a one-stroke lead over Ryu and Brittany Lincicome, Hull birdied three of the first eight holes and went to the back nine still one ahead of Ryu, the 2011 U.S. Womens Open champion who was looking for her first LPGA victory in two years.It feels great to be a winner on the LPGA Tour, Hull said. Its wicked to do it at 20. Its fun. Ariya has had a great year, Lydia, Brooke [Henderson]. It feels good to be one of the young ones that have won.As with Jutanugarn, whose mantra since spring has been about having fun on the course, Hull is a keep-it-simple type of golfer. She could be the first person to win an important tournament with her mind on a dessert.As the pressure [built] on the back nine I got into my swingg, Hull said.dddddddddddd It kind of helped a little bit having that pressure on me to hit it good. Just kind of stuck to my rhythm. I have this swing, strawberry mousse. My swing goes back to strawberry, and comes down to mousse, a bit faster. My dad used to say it to me when I was 2 years old to get my rhythm. Ive had it in my head since the Olympics. Feels good.Despite her strong play, Hull came to the par-5 17th hole tied with Ryu at 18 under. The outcome turned on Ryus fairway metal second shot, which barely missed carrying a greenside bunker and finished at the base of a four-foot-tall revetted wall. She was forced to play out sideways and failed to get up-and-down for par. Hull chipped to four feet and made birdie to take a two-stroke cushion to the last hole.I didnt really mis-hit the shot, Ryu said of her second shot at 17. Thats the shot I wanted to hit and I did it. Unfortunately, the wind stopped. I feel like God did it. Maybe he wants me to do something else, even training harder or practicing harder. Finally, though, I feel like Im completely ready to win the tournament. I hope I can have this feel until next year as well.Jutanugarn certainly would bottle the ingredients from her 2016 season, including as it did, three straight victories and five overall, including a major title. That such a breakthrough season occurred after a rough 2015, when she missed 10 straight cuts and quit practice rounds because she was afraid where her shots were going, makes it all the more remarkable.Even though I missed those 10 cuts in a row, I appreciate it, because if that thing hadnt happened, Im not going to win all this stuff this year, said Jutanugarn, who called her performance coaches Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott on Sunday morning. I feel this week is very, very special because Ive been really nervous. I kept calling [Nilsson and Marriott], like I cant do this. Even before this round, Im like, What should I do? She is going to Disney World now, to celebrate her birthday -- I feel old, Jutanugarn said -- and spend some of her big bonus. Maybe a little bit on [sister] Mo, but like a lot with my mom.Ko, who won the CME Globe the past two season, is looking forward to a break after a week that included a 62 but also some loose shots, and a season in which she won four times but included a mediocre stretch for the 14-time career winner.I am planning to not touch my clubs or look at them for the next month, said Ko, whose bogey on the 71st hole opened the door for Chun in the Vare competition. Ive looked at them for the last 11 months. I think theyre sick of me, too. I say that, but I dont know what I would do without golf. Thats how much I like it. But a little bit of time off is going to be fun.When Hull wasnt thinking of a sweet to help her timing, she was remembering silly things her mates back home had done to tame the tension. Hull will join them over the holidays.Just going out with my friends and having fun with them over Christmas, Hull said. Couple of pub crawls and stuff like that. Theyre good in England. The drinking age is 18.Or, in other words, close to the winning age on the LPGA, with no graying on the horizon. ' ' '