Stunning Vonn revival continues
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LINDSEY Vonn’s stunning revival continued when she clinched her second victory in four races in a women’s downhill yesterday to move within sight of the all-time record of World Cup wins.
Back in action two weeks ago in Lake Louise, Alberta, after a one-year break and two knee operations, the four-time World Cup winner won her second race, a downhill there, before finishing second in a super-G.
Her rivals were warned but could hardly do a thing when the former Olympic and world champion skied an almost immaculate run in Val d’Isere, France, yesterday to clinch her 61st World Cup victory in one minute 44.47 seconds.
Vonn is only one win short of the 62 mark held by Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell and she could equal it in today’s super-G on the same Oreiller-Killy course.
“Sixty-one is a difficult number and I’m looking forward to another chance tomorrow,” the 30-year-old American told reporters.
The podium was a prestigious one with 2011 downhill and super-G world champion Elizabeth Goergl of Austria and 2010 Olympic giant slalom champion Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany tied for second place, 0.19 seconds behind Vonn.
Swiss Lara Gut placed 0.39 seconds behind in fourth place, while overall leader Tina Maze of Slovenia finished half a second adrift in seventh.
The day was also a special one for Goergl, who had two up-and-down seasons since her double world title in 2011, and for Rebensburg, who had never made it on to a downhill podium before.
In Val Gardena, Italy, Norway’s Olympic super-G champion Kjetil Jansrud won his fourth World Cup race of the season yesterday taking the super-G.
The 29-year-old — who was winning the seventh race of his career — timed 1:33.87, 46-hundreths of a second quicker than Dominik Paris of Italy with Austrian Hannes Reichelt third 54-hundreths of a second adrift.
Jansrud — also Olympic bronze medalist in the downhill — extended his lead in the overall World Cup standings to 152 points over Austria’s three-time defending champion Marcel Hirscher.
The race was originally scheduled for Friday but was flip-flopped with the downhill in an attempt to preserve the course amid warm weather.
The circuit traverses the Gardena pass to nearby Alta Badia for a giant slalom today then heads to Madonna Di Campiglio for a slalom tomorrow to conclude a series of four races in four days.
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