Mancuso retires after one last run

Four-time Olympic medalist Julia Mancuso retired from skiing after an emotional goodbye run in a World Cup downhill at Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy.

Mancuso, 33, came down the Olympia delle Tofane course casually in a Wonder Woman suit with a red cape tied around her neck.

“I felt like the crazier I would dress, the better and easier and less I would be emotional and cry,” Mancuso said. “I had to pull out the super powers for today.”

Mancuso was greeted in the finish area by Lindsey Vonn and other American teammates who sprayed her with champagne.

Slowed by persistent hip problems, Mancuso did not qualify for next month’s Pyeongchang Olympics but will still go to South Korea as part of NBC’s broadcast team.

Mancuso won gold in giant slalom at the 2006 Turin Games, silver in downhill and combined at the 2010 Vancouver Games and bronze in combined at the 2014 Sochi Games — a haul that makes her the most decorated U.S. female skier in Olympic history.

Known for excelling at big events, Mancuso also collected five medals at world championships and won seven World Cup races. In other news: • Sofia Goggia of Italy won a World Cup downhill on home snow after American Lindsey Vonn of the United States made a major mistake. Vonn was faster than Goggia midway down the Olympia delle Tofane course at Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, but had trouble landing a jump and slammed on the brakes to clear the next gate. Goggia finished 0.47 seconds ahead of Vonn, who was second. Overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin of the United states finished third, 0.84 behind, in her first attempt at the Cortina downhill.

• Aksel Lund Svindal led a Norwegian 1-2 finish ahead of Kjetil Jansrud in the last World Cup super-G at Kitzbuehel, Austria, before the Pyeongchang Olympics. Svindal dominated the race, which was delayed and moved to a different course higher up the hill because overnight snow and rain affected the original course. The 2010 Olympic super-G champion beat Jansrud by 0.50 seconds.