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Sofia Goggia of Italy wins a World Cup super-G after receiving advice from good friend Lindsey Vonn

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Italian ski racer Sofia Goggia found a fast line through the technical Birds of Prey course to win a women’s super-G on Sunday. “ gave me tips and advice,” said Goggia, who also took second in Saturday’s downhill. “I thought it could be mine,” said the 32-year-old Goggia, who won her 25th career World Cup race. …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Mowinckel wins wind-affected Cortina downhill ahead of US skier Wiles and Goggia

Associated Press

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Norwegian skier Ragnhild Mowinckel kept her focus to win a wind-affected World Cup downhill after a series of crashes and delays marked a race that also had some dramatic results for the U.S. Racing on the course that will be used for the Milan-Cortina Olympics in two years, Mowinckel finished 0.35 seconds ahead of American racer …

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1 year ago

Flury wins downhill for second World Cup victory. Goggia takes discipline lead from absent Shiffrin

Associated Press

VAL D’ISERE, France — Jasmine Flury claimed only her second World Cup win as the Swiss skier triumphed in a downhill race on Saturday, while Sofia Goggia moved to the top of the discipline standings in the absence of Mikaela Shiffrin. Flury’s only other World Cup win in her career was a super-G in her native Switzerland six years ago …

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1 year ago

Mikaela Shiffrin races to rare win in World Cup downhill edging out Sofia Goggia at St. Moritz

Associated Press

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — When Mikaela Shiffrin is even winning downhill races, her rivals have less hope of denying her a record-tying sixth overall World Cup title. Shiffrin mastered the sharper turns on a sun-bathed course Saturday at St. Moritz to be 0.15 seconds faster than standout downhill racer Sofia Goggia, who won the super-G on Friday. Shiffrin earned 100 …

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1 year ago

Goggia wins first speed race of weather-hit World Cup ski season in super-G. Shiffrin is 4th

Associated Press

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Sofia Goggia won a women’s super-G as skiing’s World Cup was finally able to hold its first speed race of a weather-affected season, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing just off the podium on Friday. The first seven speed races for men and women were all canceled, but Goggia — a downhill specialist — showed top form immediately …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Swiss skier Gut-Behrami takes World Cup season-opening GS. Shiffrin places 6th

Associated Press

SOELDEN, Austria — Lara Gut-Behrami sat in the snow and leaned back against an inflatable banner in the finish area after completing her final run. Coming from fourth place, Gut-Behrami edged the Italian by two-hundredths of a second Saturday to win the season-opening women’s World Cup giant slalom, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing in sixth. It was a tough one today.” …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Shiffrin misses out in super-G, still chasing 86th victory

Associated Press

KVITFJELL, Norway — Mikaela Shiffrin ‘s hunt for a record-tying 86th career victory was extended for at least another day. Shiffrin finished in fourth place Friday in a super-G that was won by Cornelia Huetter, who finally gave the Austrian women’s team its first victory of the season. Maybe I can squeeze a little bit more speed out of it …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Sofia Goggia wins World Cup downhill, closes on season title

Associated Press

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Sofia Goggia raced toward another World Cup downhill title with a fifth win in her dominating season on Sunday. “It was really a relief for me because it was tough I crashed in the one and only training run,” said Goggia, whose 22nd career World Cup win was her 17th in downhill. Goggia’s fifth win in seven …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Flury’s downhill win at ski worlds aided by warm weather

Associated Press

MERIBEL, France — When the sun started beaming down on the Roc de Fer course, Jasmine Flury’s smile grew brighter. 2 and unheralded at previous major events, was sitting in the leader’s chair for the women’s downhill at the world championships Saturday but “definitely not” expecting to win. “The other days when it was colder it was better to start …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Italian ski team mourns Fanchini after 2 golds at worlds

Associated Press

MERIBEL, France — One moment, Marta Bassino was getting a gold medal draped around her neck. It’s been quite a swing in emotions for the Italian ski team at the world championships, where Federica Brignone won gold in combined on Monday followed by Bassino’s super-G victory two days later. “There’s a pulsating pain in our chests.” Fanchini won a silver …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Bassino edges Shiffrin as Italy goes 2-for-2 at ski worlds

Associated Press

MERIBEL, France — Two days after Federica Brignone won the gold medal in the combined to open the skiing world championships, Italian teammate Marta Bassino added another in the super-G by edging Mikaela Shiffrin. Bassino earned her second gold medal at the world championships after sharing victory with Austrian skier Katharina Liensberger in the parallel event at her home worlds …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Shiffrin, Goggia and Gut-Behrami are the favorites at worlds

Associated Press

Top women to watch at the Alpine skiing world championships, which open Monday in Courchevel and Meribel, France: Competing in her first major event since failing to win a medal at last year’s Beijing Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin will again be a contender in every race she enters. The outright favorite in downhill with four wins in the six World Cup …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Shiffrin places 4th in downhill; record chase goes on

Associated Press

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The record chase can wait. The result means that Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record-breaking 83rd World Cup victory will go on for at least another day — leaving her tied with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn for the women’s mark with 82 wins each. “I don’t really believe that I would get 83 in downhill,” Shiffrin …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Olympic champ Gut-Behrami beats Italian trio to win super-G

Associated Press

ST. ANTON, Austria — Lara Gut-Behrami beat three Italian skiers Sunday to win a women’s World Cup super-G that ended early due to high winds. The Swiss Olympic champion’s body language after finishing suggested she was far from happy with her performance, but her leading time still stood after all other favourites had completed their runs. “In the flat part, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Federica Brignone wins World Cup super-G; Shiffrin sits out

Associated Press

ST. ANTON, Austria — Federica Brignone won a World Cup super-G on Saturday for the 2020 overall champion’s first victory this season in a race that Mikaela Shiffrin skipped. The American is expected back for a super-G in Cortina on Friday, aiming for a record-setting 83rd women’s World Cup win to break the 82-win tie with Lindsey Vonn. Brignone’s eighth …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Today at the Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva leads, Team GB nightmare continues

The Independent

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2 years, 10 months ago

On bad knee, Goggia gets Olympic downhill silver; Suter wins

Associated Press

BEIJING — The most difficult moment for Alpine racer Sofia Goggia — aside, of course, from the crash itself that partially tore a ligament in her left knee and put what Italy’s team called a “minor fracture” in that leg — came when she put on her skis for the first time after arriving in China for the Olympics. My …

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2 years, 10 months ago

WHAT TO WATCH: Big rematches in women’s hockey, snowboarding

Associated Press

BEIJING — It’s a big day for rematches at the Beijing Olympics: The United States faces Finland in women’s hockey, and Max Parrot takes on Mark McMorris in snowboarding. The first run of the final is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. USA Network is showing live coverage of the final, and NBC plans to show it during its late-night slot. USA …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Olympics Live: Iran skier 1st confirmed doping case of Games

Associated Press

BEIJING — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics: ___ Iran’s only male athlete at the Beijing Olympics has tested positive for an anabolic steroid in the first confirmed doping case at the Games. ___ Lindsey Jacobellis captured America’s first gold medal of the Olympics on Wednesday, riding hard to the line in her snowboardcross final a full 16 years …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Shiffrin’s Slovakian rival has big plans for the Olympics

Associated Press

BEIJING — Mikaela Shiffrin isn’t the only Alpine skier who could enter all five individual events at the Beijing Olympics and come away with multiple medals. Vlhova already won the overall World Cup title last season — considered by many the greatest prize in skiing — and has collected six medals from world championships. She already secured this season’s World …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Goggia recovery on track in race to recover for Olympics

Associated Press

MILAN — With the Beijing Olympics looming, Sofia Goggia’s recovery is on track but the Italian will likely have to wait until the end of the week to know whether she’ll be able to defend her downhill title. The Italian ski federation said that a check-up on Sunday showed signs of improvement to Goggia’s left knee, a week after Goggia …

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2 years, 10 months ago

All eyes will be on Shiffrin, unknown hill in Olympic Alpine

Associated Press

After her first Winter Games triumph as a teenager in 2014, Mikaela Shiffrin gushed about “dreaming of the next Olympics winning five gold medals” — which not only didn’t happen, of course, but wasn’t even possible because the American ended up not competing in every Alpine event four years later. “It’s going to be a mess,” U.S. racer Travis Ganong …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Swiss skier Suter wins last downhill before Olympics

Associated Press

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — In the absence of Sofia Goggia, world champion Corinne Suter won the last downhill before the Beijing Olympics. Suter had a dominate performance Saturday to finish 0.51 seconds faster than Swiss teammate Jasmine Flury for her first World Cup victory since Dec. 18, 2020. Goggia would have been the overwhelming favorite to defend her Olympic downhill title …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Moioli replaces Goggia as Italy’s flag bearer at Olympics

Associated Press

MILAN — Defending snowboard cross gold medalist Michela Moioli will replace Sofia Goggia as Italy’s flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics after the latter’s injury over the weekend. The Italian Olympic Committee announced the change on Tuesday after president Giovanni Malagò spoke with Goggia about her rehabilitation program. Moioli, who won Italy’s first gold medal in …

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Sofia Goggia of Italy wins a World Cup super-G after receiving advice from good friend Lindsey Vonn

Mowinckel wins wind-affected Cortina downhill ahead of US skier Wiles and Goggia

Flury wins downhill for second World Cup victory. Goggia takes discipline lead from absent Shiffrin

Mikaela Shiffrin races to rare win in World Cup downhill edging out Sofia Goggia at St. Moritz

Goggia wins first speed race of weather-hit World Cup ski season in super-G. Shiffrin is 4th

Swiss skier Gut-Behrami takes World Cup season-opening GS. Shiffrin places 6th

Shiffrin misses out in super-G, still chasing 86th victory

Sofia Goggia wins World Cup downhill, closes on season title

Flury’s downhill win at ski worlds aided by warm weather

Italian ski team mourns Fanchini after 2 golds at worlds

Bassino edges Shiffrin as Italy goes 2-for-2 at ski worlds

Shiffrin, Goggia and Gut-Behrami are the favorites at worlds

Shiffrin places 4th in downhill; record chase goes on

Olympic champ Gut-Behrami beats Italian trio to win super-G

Federica Brignone wins World Cup super-G; Shiffrin sits out

Today at the Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva leads, Team GB nightmare continues

On bad knee, Goggia gets Olympic downhill silver; Suter wins

WHAT TO WATCH: Big rematches in women’s hockey, snowboarding

Olympics Live: Iran skier 1st confirmed doping case of Games

Shiffrin’s Slovakian rival has big plans for the Olympics

Goggia recovery on track in race to recover for Olympics

All eyes will be on Shiffrin, unknown hill in Olympic Alpine

Swiss skier Suter wins last downhill before Olympics

Moioli replaces Goggia as Italy’s flag bearer at Olympics