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Johannes Strolz emulated his father when he came from behind to win alpine skiing combined Olympic gold at the Beijing Games on Thursday, a year after being dropped from Austria’s top tier team because his results weren’t good enough. Placed a strong fourth after the downhill portion and in striking distance, Strolz added the fastest run in his speciality discipline, the slalom, for his biggest career victory. Downhill leader Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway did surprisingly well in the slalom leg to secure silver .59 of a second back. Bronze another nine-hundredths back went to Canada’s Jame…