Riesch nets World Cup after race scrapped
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March 20, 2011, Sunday
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GERMANY'S Maria Riesch won the overall women's World Cup, denying Lindsey Vonn a fourth successive title, when the final race of the season in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, was canceled due to bad weather yesterday.
Riesch won her first overall crown by a slender three points when the giant slalom was called off, finally dethroning her American rival after several years of trying.
It was an anti-climatic and somewhat embarrassing end to what should have been the most dramatic finale to the season in years and may put pressure on the International Ski Federation to change its rules.
Races are not rescheduled if they are called off by the weather and the FIS packed four women's and men's races plus a one-day team event into five days of hectic skiing at Lenzerheide.
Vonn, too upset to talk to reporters, said through the US team: "Win or lose I just wanted the chance."
The third German to win the overall title after Katja Seizinger and Rosi Mittermaier, Riesch finished runner-up behind the American the previous two years.
The cancelation also handed the giant slalom World Cup to Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg, the Olympic champion in the discipline.
"To win by three points obviously needs a bit of luck, you can't say that one is better than the other," said Riesch after winning by 1,728 points to 1,725. Tina Maze of Slovenia was in third with 1,139.
Also, Ivica Kostelic took the men's World Cup slalom title, and Italy's Guiliano Razzoli won the final race.
Kostelic placed 18th and out of the points but his closest rivals failed to take advantage. Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Grange skied out in the first run, and Sweden's Andre Myhrer needed to win the race but finished sixth.
Kostelic was also the runaway winner in the overall standings, and won the super-combined title.
Razzoli's two-run time of 1 minute, 25.72 seconds was 0.03 seconds ahead of Austria's Mario Matt.
Riesch won her first overall crown by a slender three points when the giant slalom was called off, finally dethroning her American rival after several years of trying.
It was an anti-climatic and somewhat embarrassing end to what should have been the most dramatic finale to the season in years and may put pressure on the International Ski Federation to change its rules.
Races are not rescheduled if they are called off by the weather and the FIS packed four women's and men's races plus a one-day team event into five days of hectic skiing at Lenzerheide.
Vonn, too upset to talk to reporters, said through the US team: "Win or lose I just wanted the chance."
The third German to win the overall title after Katja Seizinger and Rosi Mittermaier, Riesch finished runner-up behind the American the previous two years.
The cancelation also handed the giant slalom World Cup to Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg, the Olympic champion in the discipline.
"To win by three points obviously needs a bit of luck, you can't say that one is better than the other," said Riesch after winning by 1,728 points to 1,725. Tina Maze of Slovenia was in third with 1,139.
Also, Ivica Kostelic took the men's World Cup slalom title, and Italy's Guiliano Razzoli won the final race.
Kostelic placed 18th and out of the points but his closest rivals failed to take advantage. Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Grange skied out in the first run, and Sweden's Andre Myhrer needed to win the race but finished sixth.
Kostelic was also the runaway winner in the overall standings, and won the super-combined title.
Razzoli's two-run time of 1 minute, 25.72 seconds was 0.03 seconds ahead of Austria's Mario Matt.
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