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Vonn criticizes officials after race pullout
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LINDSEY Vonn wasn’t about to risk another injury, and neither was US compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin.
Vonn and Shiffrin — the overall World Cup leader — along with some of their teammates on the World Cup tour, pulled out of the combined race in Crans Montana, Switzerland, yesterday because of dangerous conditions on the course. The first three racers all crashed, and one was taken away on a stretcher with a knee injury.
“For me I’ve had so many injuries, I don’t need to risk anything today,” Vonn said. “A lot of the other athletes and coaches were asking me to put pressure on everyone to try to cancel the race because it’s too dangerous and I did my best but I just pray that no one else gets hurt today. I think it was a smart decision for our team to pull out of the race.”
After Ilka Stuhec, Tessa Worley and Denise Feierabend all fell at nearly the same point in the opening super-G portion of the combined race, the event was postponed and the start was lowered.
Stuhec and Worley were able to restart but Feierabend could not because of her injury. Worley then crashed again on her second attempt.
Federica Brignone, who was second after the super-G portion, won the race, overtaking first-run leader Stuhec in the slalom. Michaela Kirchgasser was third.
Vonn said the race shouldn’t have gone ahead at all after several of the forerunners — including compatriot Julia Mancuso — crashed while testing the course as the snow began to melt in changeable weather conditions.
The 32-year-old Vonn missed nearly two seasons of competition after injuring her right knee in Austria in 2013. She hurt the same knee in her comeback. Vonn returned to competition last month after nearly a year out with knee and arm injuries.
The US ski federation announced that its team of Vonn, Shiffrin, Laurenne Ross, Jaqueline Wiles, Breezy Johnson and Stacey Cook would not compete. But Wiles, Cook and Johnson did start, with only Johnson finishing the opening leg. She was in 36th place after the super-G.
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