Alpine skiing - Ryding puts Britain on the podium in Kitzbuehel

(Reuters) - Dave Ryding was the talk of Kitzbuehel on Sunday after he finished second in one of the biggest slaloms of the Alpine ski season to match Britain's best ever World Cup result. With his first career podium, the 30-year-old who learnt to ski on a dry slope in north-west England matched compatriot Konrad Bartelski's astonishing second place in a Val Gardena downhill in 1981. Although it was a British sporting pioneer Arnold Lunn who is today credited with having invented the modern slalom race in 1922, none of his compatriots have ever won on the World Cup circuit in 50 years of trying.
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