Vonn claims super-G crown
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February 1, 2010, Monday
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AMERICAN Lindsey Vonn, beaten for the first time this season in a downhill a day earlier, captured the World Cup super-G title after winning in St Moritz, Switzerland, yesterday.
In the last race before the Vancouver Olympics, the American clocked one minute 1.77 seconds to grab her ninth overall victory of the season.
With only two races left this season Vonn leads Swiss Fabienne Suter by more than 200 points in the super-G standings and cannot be caught.
Vonn also strengthened her overall World Cup lead over Saturday's downhill winner Maria Riesch who now trails her by 137 points.
Her German friend and rival hit a gate and finished 11th.
"I saw that Maria had not been doing so well and I really went for the points. Luckily, there will be no points awarded at the Olympics. I will only think about victory," Vonn said. "In a way, it was not so bad losing yesterday. I'd rather lose here and win in Vancouver."
It was the 31st career victory for Vonn who said she took inspiration from Roger Federer, who won the Australian Open tennis title yesterday. "I saw the beginning of Roger's final in the start area and I saw he was taking a lot of risks. It gave me motivation to go for it today."
Austria's Andrea Fischbacher, who beat the American in Friday's super-G leg of the super-combined on the same piste, and France's Marie Marchand-Arvier were joint second in the same time.
It was Marchand-Arvier's best World Cup result after two previous third places. She and Fischbacher were 0.17 seconds behind the winner.
The Frenchwoman was the silver medalist behind Vonn at the world championships last year.
By contrast the Olympic hopes of Italy's Nadia Fanchini, the world championships bronze medalist, appeared to be shattered when she tumbled down the Corviglia piste and hurt her knee badly.
In Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Reinfried Herbst led an Austrian 1-2 at a World Cup slalom yesterday.
Herbst finished the Podkoren 3 course in a combined time of 1 minute, 45.35 seconds to beat Marcel Hirscher by 0.40 seconds.
It was Herbst's second victory of the week after winning on Tuesday at Schladming, Austria, and his fourth of the season.
Julien Lizeroux of France was 0.53 back in third. Ted Ligety of the United States, who won a giant slalom here on Friday, finished fourth but was later disqualified.
Benjamin Raich of Austria further extended his lead in the overall standings over Switzerland's Carlo Janka to 1,003-897.
In the last race before the Vancouver Olympics, the American clocked one minute 1.77 seconds to grab her ninth overall victory of the season.
With only two races left this season Vonn leads Swiss Fabienne Suter by more than 200 points in the super-G standings and cannot be caught.
Vonn also strengthened her overall World Cup lead over Saturday's downhill winner Maria Riesch who now trails her by 137 points.
Her German friend and rival hit a gate and finished 11th.
"I saw that Maria had not been doing so well and I really went for the points. Luckily, there will be no points awarded at the Olympics. I will only think about victory," Vonn said. "In a way, it was not so bad losing yesterday. I'd rather lose here and win in Vancouver."
It was the 31st career victory for Vonn who said she took inspiration from Roger Federer, who won the Australian Open tennis title yesterday. "I saw the beginning of Roger's final in the start area and I saw he was taking a lot of risks. It gave me motivation to go for it today."
Austria's Andrea Fischbacher, who beat the American in Friday's super-G leg of the super-combined on the same piste, and France's Marie Marchand-Arvier were joint second in the same time.
It was Marchand-Arvier's best World Cup result after two previous third places. She and Fischbacher were 0.17 seconds behind the winner.
The Frenchwoman was the silver medalist behind Vonn at the world championships last year.
By contrast the Olympic hopes of Italy's Nadia Fanchini, the world championships bronze medalist, appeared to be shattered when she tumbled down the Corviglia piste and hurt her knee badly.
In Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Reinfried Herbst led an Austrian 1-2 at a World Cup slalom yesterday.
Herbst finished the Podkoren 3 course in a combined time of 1 minute, 45.35 seconds to beat Marcel Hirscher by 0.40 seconds.
It was Herbst's second victory of the week after winning on Tuesday at Schladming, Austria, and his fourth of the season.
Julien Lizeroux of France was 0.53 back in third. Ted Ligety of the United States, who won a giant slalom here on Friday, finished fourth but was later disqualified.
Benjamin Raich of Austria further extended his lead in the overall standings over Switzerland's Carlo Janka to 1,003-897.
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