Cuche Amused By Miller`s Critical Comments

`It made me laugh`, Cuche told reporters after the first training for Saturday`s men`s downhill.

Swiss Didier Cuche reacted with amusement rather than anger on Thursday after he was accused by Bode Miller of winning the men's super-G world title by skiing "conservative".

"It made me laugh," Cuche told reporters after the first training for Saturday's men's downhill.

"He actually made the comments directly to me after the race but, since I had not heard the beginning of his sentence, I didn't know whether he was talking about me or about himself."

Miller finished 12th in the first men's race of the Feb. 3-15 championships won by Cuche on Wednesday. He said the men's Bellevarde piste made it impossible to attack and favoured "defensive, conservative" skiing.

"Skiing on a piste like this requires technique, physique, but it also requires intelligence," Cuche's Swiss team mate Didier Defago said when asked about Miller's remarks.

Bronze medallist Aksel-Lund Svindal of Norway also dismissed the American's views.

"If Miller had won the race by two seconds, it would be interesting, but coming from a skier who was nearly three seconds behind, it's not very important," Svindal said.