Six-year wait over

World champion Lara Gut-Behrami improved with her second run yesterday to win her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years. Gut-Behrami was third in the opening run on the course in Killington, Vermont, but did enough to edge out Marta Bassino, of Italy, by 0.07sec. Defending Olympic champion Sara Hector, who had led after the opening run, was third – 0.20sec behind Gut-Behrami, who won gold in the discipline at the world championships in Cortina last year but the Swiss had not won a World Cup GS race since October 2016.