Vonn on a roll heading into Winter Games
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Lindsey Vonn won her second World Cup downhill of the weekend Sunday in a perfect dress rehearsal for the Winter Olympics.
It was the American’s third consecutive triumph in the discipline after also winning at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, two weeks ago.
“Two wins is as good as it gets, really. It’s just been a perfect weekend,” said Vonn, who plans to compete in downhill, super-G and the combined event at the Winter Games at Pyeongchang. “It has really been the exact preparation that I was hoping for going into South Korea.”
In a similar scenario to Saturday’s race, Vonn beat Sofia Goggia for the victory. The American clocked 1 minute, 37.92 seconds on the Kandahar course to beat her Italian rival by 0.11 seconds after edging her by 0.02 the day before. Goggia won two consecutive downhills in January but crashed in the race in which Vonn started her winning streak.
Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein was a hundredth of a second further behind in third.
Stacey Cook, Vonn’s American teammate, crashed and was taken off the hill on a sled “as a precaution,” the U.S. ski team said, adding Cook “is OK.” Jacqueline Wiles, another teammate, damaged her left knee in a crash Saturday and was ruled out of the Olympics.
Vonn’s 81st World Cup win Sunday left her just five short of the all-time best mark set by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark in the 1980s.