With just over a year to go before the Winter Olympics, the Cortina d'Ampezzo Alpine skiing course got the thumbs up from athletes who competed in the resort last weekend.
The Cortina d'Ampezzo ski course has successfully impressed athletes ahead of the Winter Olympics. The course, host to World Cup races since 1969, showed promising conditions. Athletes praised the atmosphere and organization,
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Lindsey Vonn falls in World Cup super-G at Cortina; Federica Brignone wins
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Brignone wins super-G after Goggia takes downhill as Italy goes 2-for-2 on Olympic course in Cortina
Vonn crashes out of Cortina super-G race
Saturday, each posted top-20 results in Cortina’s downhill. Sunday, Vonn crashed out of the super-G race after her skis caught on themselves. Macuga finished 16th in Sunday’s super-G race.
Sofia Goggia put on a speed ski masterclass in Saturday's World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, delighting fans with a typically fearless display on home snow as Lindsey Vonn had a disappointing run on one of her favourite pistes.
Italian Sofia Goggia continued to impress on her return from injury, winning the World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo's iconic Olympia delle Tofane course on Saturday, while American Lindsey Vonn finished down in 20th.
Sofia Goggia is leading a World Cup downhill on the course that will host women's skiing at next year's Milan-Cortina Olympics, while Lindsey Vonn was in 20th.
Italy's Sofia Goggia has claimed her first win in over a month in the downhill on home soil in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Saturday, while compatriot Federica Brignone took the overall World Cup lead. Goggia's last victory had been at Beaver Creek's super-G on December 15,
Federica Brignone continued her superb season by winning Sunday's super-G at Cortina d'Ampezzo to extend her World Cup lead, as comeback queen Lindsey Vonn crashed out.
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Lindsey Vonn has fallen while on pace for a top-5 finish at a World Cup super-G on the course that will host skiing at next year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics.
With just over a year to go before the Winter Olympics, the Cortina d'Ampezzo Alpine skiing course got the thumbs up from athletes who competed in the resort last weekend. The Milan-Cortina Games will be held from Feb.
As big as the games are, it's hard to imagine holding the actual Winter Olympics here in upstate NY, but we did in 1980. Could it happen again, 46 years later?
Alice Robinson won the World Cup giant slalom at Kronplatz on Tuesday, claiming her first win of the season after local hero Federica Brignone slid out of contention in a second-run disaster.
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