Alpine Skiing: Vonn wins Super-G to complete Canada treble

Vonn won the season-opening World Cup downhill Friday for her 16th victory at Lake Louise.

“I feel like I win here so often that everyone thinks it’s really easy for me and it’s not”, Vonn said. “I caught an edge and did some sort of split manoeuvre”, Vonn said.

In 2013, Vonn was injured in a training run barely two weeks before Lake Louise, reinjuring her right knee, and settled for 40 and 11 in downhills and fifth in the Super-G.

After a fairly disappointing season with no podium results in 2014-15, Switzerland’s Suter was on the verge of announcing her retirement.

She’s learning the nuances of a slightly altered Lake Louise layout as officials added more rolling terrain.

According to NBC Sports, Vonn won even though she had to do the splits to avoid a fall.

Vonn now has 68 overall World Cup wins.

The women’s speed week at Lake Louise concludes Sunday with the World Cup season’s first women’s super G, where Shiffrin, a technical specialist, will try her hand at World Cup speed races for the first time. “I was like ‘no, I’m getting the worst luck ever.’ I’ve raced this hill 100 times and I’ve had similar situations where the winds been pretty dramatic and I know it’s still possible to win”. “I was so confident in all disciplines”.

The 31-year-old now turns her attention to Sunday’s super-G event, a race she has won on three previous occasions at the venue.

Midway through her run, Vonn caught an edge that sent her left ski wide. That’s what I love. “It was my physio Lindsay’s last day with me travelling on the road, so I kind of wanted to end with a bang”. “I still want to push as hard as I possibly can”. The 19-year-old felt she skied defensively.

“I wasn’t getting any reports about that, but I definitely was shocked by it when I went off of it and I was kind of in the backseat a little bit, landed on my tails, and was slightly anxious for a second there that I was going to go out right before the finish – which I have done before”.