Austrian Skier Venier Wins Cortina Downhill After Shiffrin Among Racers Who Crashed – News18

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy: Stephanie Venier held her nerve to win a World Cup downhill after Mikaela Shiffrin and different skiers crashed on Friday on the course marked for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

Shiffrin crashed into the protection nets after dropping management whereas touchdown a leap on the higher portion of the course. She was helped off the course along with her left boot raised off the snow.

After Shiffrin and fellow former total champion Federica Brignone went down, in addition to Olympic champion Corinne Suter, Venier was capable of take care of the difficult terrain on the Olympia delle Tofane course.

Venier completed 0.39 seconds forward of Lara Gut-Behrami and 0.71 forward of three skiers who tied for third: Valerie Grenier, Christina Ager and residential favourite Sofia Goggia — making a uncommon 5-particular person podium.

“I saw all the crashes on the top,” Venier stated. “But I think I managed it, and it was a good run, and my technician did a really good job. My skis were really fast today.”

Venier’s second profession World Cup win got here 5 years after a downhill win in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

No ladies on the as soon as dominant Austrian workforce had received a downhill since December 2019 via Nicole Schmidhofer at Lake Louise, Alberta.

Shiffrin’s arms have been flailing as she landed in a patch of sentimental snow. The American, who has a file 95 World Cup wins, then slammed into the web at excessive velocity and rebounded again onto the snow. Medics tended to Shiffrin instantly.

Shiffrin’s workforce stated she suffered a left leg damage and was taken by ambulance to the clinic in Cortina.

Brignone crashed shortly after the race resumed following a delay due to Shiffrin’s fall. But Brignone obtained proper up and proceeded to ski down. She was unharmed.

Then Suter pulled up halfway down her run with an obvious damage. Suter sat and clutched her left knee.

Michelle Gisin, a two-time Olympic champion, additionally crashed afterward however appeared to keep away from severe damage.

The race was held amid clear and sunny circumstances however heat temperatures.

Shiffrin and Brignone are the fourth and fifth former total World Cup champions to crash previously two weeks following season-ending accidents to Alexis Pinturault, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Petra Vlhova.

In all, 12 of 52 starters didn’t end the race.

Another downhill is scheduled for Cortina on Saturday, adopted by a brilliant-G on Sunday.

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