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December 14, 2009, Monday
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SANDRINE Aubert emulated teammate Tessa Worley when she won a women's slalom in Are, Sweden, for a rare French double yesterday.
Spurred on by the giant slalom victory of Worley on the same Olimpia piste the previous day, Aubert won her third World Cup victory, all in slaloms, in a combined time of one minute 43.24 seconds.
A blistering second run as fog was creeping up the piste allowed the 27-year-old skier from Les Deux Alpes to leave German sisters Maria and Susanne Riesch to battle it out for the other two podium spots.
"To win back-to-back races is extremely important. This weekend is going to be crucial for the rest of our season," Aubert said.
The last time two French women won two races in succession was 10 years ago in Copper Mountain, when Christel Saioni won a slalom and Regine Cavagnoud a giant slalom.
"We want to dedicate these wins to the boys who have been struggling lately," added Aubert, in a reference to slalom specialist Jean-Baptiste Grange who will miss the Vancouver Olympics in February because of a knee injury.
The Frenchwoman, who won her first career slalom in Ofterschwang, Austria, last season, won the Are finals race a week later but had struggled this season.
World champion Maria Risech was second, 0.45 seconds behind, and took the overall World Cup lead from arch-rival Lindsey Vonn.
Younger sister Susanne, fourth in the previous two slaloms of the season, made it on to her first podium, 0.96 seconds behind Aubert.
Vonn, winner of two downhills last weekend in Lake Louise, had to be content with eighth place, 2.13 off the pace. The American now trails Riesch by 20 points in the overall World Cup standings.
Austria's Kathrin Zettel, who took fourth place in yesterday's slalom after finishing third on Saturday, lies third on 330 points.
In Val d'Isere, Marcel Hirscher completed an Austrian clean sweep in the French Alps by securing his maiden World Cup win in the giant slalom yesterday.
The 20-year-old Hirscher's victory meant Austrians claimed all three weekend events after wins by Benjamin Raich in Friday's super-combined and Michael Walchhofer in Saturday's super-G.
Hirscher clocked a combined time of 2:16.28 down the steep, icy Bellevarde course to win by 0.77 seconds from Italy's Massimiliano Blardone with Raich back in third.
Raich took the overall World Cup lead from Swiss Carlo Janka, who posted three wins in as many days last week at Beaver Creek but crashed out in the first leg of the giant slalom, the third event he failed to finish in Val D'Isere.
Spurred on by the giant slalom victory of Worley on the same Olimpia piste the previous day, Aubert won her third World Cup victory, all in slaloms, in a combined time of one minute 43.24 seconds.
A blistering second run as fog was creeping up the piste allowed the 27-year-old skier from Les Deux Alpes to leave German sisters Maria and Susanne Riesch to battle it out for the other two podium spots.
"To win back-to-back races is extremely important. This weekend is going to be crucial for the rest of our season," Aubert said.
The last time two French women won two races in succession was 10 years ago in Copper Mountain, when Christel Saioni won a slalom and Regine Cavagnoud a giant slalom.
"We want to dedicate these wins to the boys who have been struggling lately," added Aubert, in a reference to slalom specialist Jean-Baptiste Grange who will miss the Vancouver Olympics in February because of a knee injury.
The Frenchwoman, who won her first career slalom in Ofterschwang, Austria, last season, won the Are finals race a week later but had struggled this season.
World champion Maria Risech was second, 0.45 seconds behind, and took the overall World Cup lead from arch-rival Lindsey Vonn.
Younger sister Susanne, fourth in the previous two slaloms of the season, made it on to her first podium, 0.96 seconds behind Aubert.
Vonn, winner of two downhills last weekend in Lake Louise, had to be content with eighth place, 2.13 off the pace. The American now trails Riesch by 20 points in the overall World Cup standings.
Austria's Kathrin Zettel, who took fourth place in yesterday's slalom after finishing third on Saturday, lies third on 330 points.
In Val d'Isere, Marcel Hirscher completed an Austrian clean sweep in the French Alps by securing his maiden World Cup win in the giant slalom yesterday.
The 20-year-old Hirscher's victory meant Austrians claimed all three weekend events after wins by Benjamin Raich in Friday's super-combined and Michael Walchhofer in Saturday's super-G.
Hirscher clocked a combined time of 2:16.28 down the steep, icy Bellevarde course to win by 0.77 seconds from Italy's Massimiliano Blardone with Raich back in third.
Raich took the overall World Cup lead from Swiss Carlo Janka, who posted three wins in as many days last week at Beaver Creek but crashed out in the first leg of the giant slalom, the third event he failed to finish in Val D'Isere.
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