Two out of two titles for Swiss women Germany’s Weidle a surprise silver, bronze for Gut-Behrami (Adds Gut-Behrami, Weidle quotes)
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Corinne Suter continued Switzerland’s golden start to the Alpine skiing world championships on Saturday by winning her country’s first women’s downhill title in 32 years.
A silver medallist two years ago and also in Thursday’s super-G, won by team mate Lara Gut-Behrami, Suter started seventh and made no mistakes as she powered down Cortina’s glistening Olympia delle Tofane piste.
Germany’s Kira Weidle, 11th starter, ran Suter close to take a surprise silver 0.20 seconds adrift.
Corinne Suter continued Switzerland s golden start to the Alpine skiing world championships yesterday by winning her country s first women s downhill title in 32 years. A silver medallist two years ago and also in Thursday s super-G, won by teammate Lara Gut-Behrami, Suter started seventh and made no mistakes as she powered down Cortina s glistening Olympi
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) If Petra Vlhova wins a medal at the skiing world championships, she’ll be more than happy to add it her collection. If not, she’ll move on to her bigger goal.
The biggest news for the coming weekend of women’s races in Crans Montana, Switzerland, is that the greatest speed skier of all time will be joining our NBC group to call the races alongside Dan Hicks. It should mark the only time this year I’ll get to sleep in past 1 a.m. But if you think I’m going to miss an opportunity to hear Lindsey Vonn call a race (and to steal mercilessly from her sage insights), well, you overestimate my need to sleep.
Crans Montana has not been a regular stop on the women’s tour. Just 13 downhill races have been held there since 1977, five of them in the last decade. Of those, Vonn won two and knows better than anyone where to suss out its speed.