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Last Updated: January 29, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Olympic champion Lara GutBehrami is midway to Lindsey Vonn’s Cortina report after claiming a World Cup superG on Sunday for her sixth profession victory on the Olympia delle Tofane course which once more was the location of a number of crashes.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy: Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami is midway to Lindsey Vonn’s Cortina report after claiming a World Cup tremendous-G on Sunday for her sixth profession victory on the Olympia delle Tofane course — which once more was the location of a number of crashes.
Too dangerous the 32-12 months-previous Gut-Behrami can’t say for positive but whether or not she’ll nonetheless be competing in two years on the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
In a race when lots of the prime favorites struggled with a tough course-set, Gut-Behrami edged Stephanie Venier, Friday’s downhill winner, by 0.21 seconds. Romane Miradoli completed third, 0.41 behind.
“I have very good memories here,” mentioned Gut-Behrami, who has a house in northern Italy. “With all the crashes, really I just tried not to take any risk and just tried to keep in it to the finish. … When you’re winning it’s even better because your skiing is there and it’s solid.”
Asked if she shall be again at Cortina subsequent 12 months, Gut-Behrami responded solely, “We’ll see.”
A day earlier, Gut-Behrami mentioned she deliberate to compete via subsequent season’s world championships in Saalbach, Austria.
It was Gut-Behrami’s fourth World Cup win in Cortina, to go along with her two gold medals on the 2021 world championships on the Italian resort.
Vonn gained 12 World Cup races in Cortina — six downhills and 6 super-Gs.
After Mikaela Shiffrin crashed however prevented main damage on Friday and Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter and Swiss teammate Joana Haehlen had season-ending accidents over the weekend, there was one other critical crash involving Canadian racer Valerie Grenier, who completed third on Friday.
Grenier was taken off the course by toboggan after receiving prolonged medical therapy and Alpine Canada mentioned later that she injured her shoulder and “will likely require surgery.”
There have been a number of different falls that didn’t end in critical accidents.
Gut-Behrami, who earned her forty first World Cup victory, moved inside 195 factors of Shiffrin within the total standings, with the American nonetheless out of motion not less than via Tuesday.
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