VAL DISERE, France -- It was another great day for Norway in the first mens speed race of the season with Kjetil Jansrud and Aksel Lund Svindal finishing 1-2 in a super-G on Friday.Svindal, back racing 10 months after sustaining a serious knee injury, was 0.17 seconds slower than Jansrud, the Olympic champion in super-G. Jansrud won in 1 minute, 21.66 seconds.Im very surprised, said Svindal, who has had only three weeks of top-level training since rupturing his right ACL in a downhill at Kitzbuehel, Austria. I was fairly nervous but what can you do? Just try your best, right.Svindal punched the air with both fists when he posted the fastest time as the fifth starter. Jansrud went down two racers later and topped it.To pull off a double victory is quite extraordinary, said Jansrud, the favorite for the marquee downhill on Saturday. It was a pretty emotional day for both of us.Dominik Paris of Italy was third, 0.41 behind Jansrud, on a course setting that suited downhill specialists. They had ideal racing conditions until the sun dipped behind the mountains.A stellar Norway mens team earned 19 wins last season and got its first this season in the third race.The team has dominated in super-G with three different Norwegians -- Svindal, Jansrud and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde -- combining to win the past five season-long titles in the discipline.Svindal said their high standards in training helped him return at such a high level.I have the best teammates in the world, the two-time overall World Cup winner said. Without my team, I would have no chance.Still, the 33-year-old Svindal has defied serious injury throughout his career to return just as strong and fast.After sustaining multiple injuries in a wipeout in Beaver Creek, Colorado, in November 2007, Svindal came back the next season to win his second overall title.He did not race in the 2014-15 World Cup because of an Achilles injury, yet returned to dominate last season by winning four of five downhills. Svindal led the overall standings when he crashed in the classic Kitzbuehel race.I think a lot of it is mental strength, Svindal said. A lot of it is being relaxed about it. What happens, happens. Just make the best of the situation.The mens circuit made an early return to Europe after losing two weekends in North America -- in Beaver Creek and Lake Louise, Canada -- because of a lack of snow.Val dIsere stepped in to take the super-G, downhill and giant slalom races scheduled for Beaver Creek.Two American racers posted impressive results despite starting after the sunshine mostly disappeared. Travis Ganong, wearing No. 27, placed seventh, 0.75 behind Jansrud. From starting 61st, Ryan Cochran-Siegle took a career-best 15th place, 1.24 back.Cochran-Siegle had not raced a World Cup super-G since the 2013 world championships in Schladming, Austria. There, the Vermont native suffered a serious knee injury.That was an amazing performance, United States head coach Sasha Rearick said of Cochran-Siegles return. He has had many operations, major operations. Im super proud of him.The powerful Austria team struggled, with 10th-place Max Franz its best finisher.Austrian officials had pushed for a new way of deciding the starting order in speed races, and it was used for the first time Friday.The 10 best-ranked super-G racers chose their bib number in order among the odd numbers 1 through 19. The next 10 ranked picked from the even numbers.Kilde, the defending World Cup super-G champion, picked No. 3, ahead of Jansrud then Svindal. They proved smart choices as the top five finishers all started between Nos. 4 and 11. Stitched Jerseys . -- About a third of the way through the regular season, the Washington Wizards are at . China Jerseys . After Mondays hard-fought loss, the wait seemed longer than usual. 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LA UNION, Colombia -- The latest on the aftermath of Colombian plane crash that killed members of Brazilian soccer team (all times local):8:25 p.m.Forensic authorities in Colombia say they have so far identified 59 of the 71 people killed in Monday nights plane crash and hope to finish their work Thursday.Of those identified, 52 are Brazilian, five are Bolivian, one is Venezuelan and another is Paraguayan.Brazils air force has a Hercules cargo plane waiting in Medellin to return the bodies of the victims, which include most of Brazils Chapecoense soccer team.---7:50 p.m.The tribute to Brazils Chapecoense soccer team is in full swing in Medellin, Colombia.Prior to the tributes start, fans of the local Atletico Nacional team dressed in white and shouted slogans in support of the Brazilian squad, which was on a plane that crashed outside the city. The Brazilians were supposed to have played Atletico Nacional in the finals of the Copa Sudamericana tournament Wednesday night.A military bands memorial tune as the stadium lights dimmed has brought tears to the faces of Atletico Nacionals normally stern-faced players and everyone else in the nearly full 40,000-seat stadium.Black Hawk helicopters that helped in the rescue operation that managed to pull six survivors from the wreckage performed a fly-over. Several first responders who were at the crash scene attended.Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose Serra fought to hold back tears as he thanked fans for their show of solidarity. He told them: Its a light of hope when all of us are trying to understand whats impossible to understand.---6:10 p.m.Colombians dressed in white are arriving at a soccer stadium in Medellin to pay tribute to a Brazilian team that was nearly wiped out in a plane crash outside the city.Despite the tragic circumstances, the mood is surprisingly festive as fans of Medellins Atletico Nacional soccer club shout slogans in support of Brazils Chapecoense team. The Brazilian squad was supposed to have played the hometown team Wednesday night in the first round of the two-game finals of the Copa Sudamericana tournament.Medellins mayor is in attendance and there is talk the event may also draw Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose Serra, who arrived in the city to oversee the repatriation of the bodies of the mostly Brazilian victims.Atletico Nacional has proposed that the Copa Sudamericana title be awarded to its Brazilian rival in honor of the team and the soccer worlds loss.---3:20 p.m.The acting president of the Chapecoense soccer club says the team hopes to play its final game of the league season using primarily a youth team.Nineteen of the clubs players were killed Monday in an air crash in Colombia. Three survived but are hospitalized in Colombia.Speaking Wednesday to reporters, Ivan Tozzo says he was told to go ahead with the match by Marco Polo Del Nero, head of the Brazilian Football Confederation.Tozzo quoted Del Nero as saying, This game has to happen. There haas to be a big ceremony.ddddddddddddThe Brazilian Football Confederation has called for seven days of mourning. The final round of top league matches in Brazil is set for Dec. 11.---1:30 p.m.The only Brazilian player in the NFL says he is devastated by the crash of a chartered plane carrying 77 people in Colombia.Kansas City Chiefs kicker Cairo Santos says he recognized the names of many of the players for the soccer club Chapecoense who were aboard the plane. Many played for larger clubs earlier in their careers, including Flamengo, the team that Santos supports.Chapecoense was headed to the first of two matches in the final of the Copa Sudamericana, the continents No. 2 club tournament. Santos called the team a Cinderella story, a small club doing big things.---12:40 p.m.The pilot of a chartered plane with 77 people aboard told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel moments before crashing into the Andes.A recording from the air traffic tower leaked to W Radio shows the pilot of the British-built jet repeatedly requesting permission to land due to a total electric failure and lack of fuel.A female controller can be heard giving instructions as the aircraft loses speed and altitude about 8 miles from the Medellin airport. Just before going silent the pilot says hes flying at an altitude at 9,000 feet.W Radio didnt say how it obtained the recordings. But they would seem to confirm the account of a pilot on a nearby commercial flight.Mondays crash killed all but six of the people aboard, including most members of the Chapecoense soccer team from Brazil.---7:30 a.m.German Chancellor Angela Merkel says it was with great dismay that she learned about the tragic plane crash in Colombia.The chancellor expressed her condolences Wednesday in a letter to Brazilian President Michel Temer, saying she wants to convey the sympathy of the German people.Merkel expressed her sympathy for the families of the victims and sent best wishes for a speedy recovery of the survivors of the disaster.---7 a.m.Pope Francis has asked for prayers for victims of the plane crash in Colombia, noting the Brazilian people are mourning the loss of soccer players from the Chapecoense team.He mentioned the tragedy while greeting Portuguese-speaking pilgrims at his public audience Wednesday at the Vatican.The crash of the chartered aircraft late Monday in the Andes mountains claimed 71 lives.Francis told the pilgrims that Italians were reminded of the 1949 Superga air crash that wiped out an Italian soccer team. Francis said, Id like to recall today the Brazilian peoples sorrow. He urged prayers for the victims of these harsh tragedies.In condolence telegrams to the local Colombia bishop and to the head of the Brazilian bishops conference, Francis expressed his solidarity and consolation to families of the dead and injured. ' ' '