Vonn bags hat-trick in Alberta for 70th World Cup victory

“I feel like there were some people that doubted whether I could win today, and especially because Lara (Gut) had won the last couple races here in Super-G”, Vonn told reporters.

The 31-year-old American blitzed the lower sections to win by over half a second.

The athletes will get another chance to master the course as a second downhill is scheduled for Saturday followed by a super-G on Sunday. On Saturday, she was a full second ahead of anyone else for victory number two.

“Hat tricks are very hard to do”. Her winning time on Sunday was one minute 19.79 seconds.Lindsey Vonn caught an edge with her left ski and was certain she was crashing.

“I feel like I’m pretty confident right now”. This was the third time that she swept the weekend of racing in the Canadian Rockies, not to mention that she has scored 18 of her victories there.

The World Cup tour resumes next week with technical events in Are, Sweden.

“I feel like I win here so often that everyone thinks it’s really easy for me and it’s not”, Vonn said. Only Vonn was able to overtake the 39-ranked super G skier on the day.

The highlights (and lowlights) since 2012 include finalizing her divorce from Thomas Vonn, dating Tiger Woods, tearing up her right knee (twice), sitting out the 2014 Sochi Olympics splitting up with Woods and becoming the most decorated female skier of all-time by breaking the record of 62 World Cup victories held for decades by Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proll. Maze, the 2013 champion, is taking a season off.

“It was so fun”. “Mission accomplished”, Shiffrin said, according to media in Lake Louise. “To have my first World Cup super-G out of the way, to know I can be top-15 and probably faster actually, I’ll lean more towards doing super-Gs and make sure I stay on top of my slalom and giant slalom”.

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) – Lindsey Vonn stepped into the starting gate at Lake Louise – race over.

“It’s just astounding to me how good of an understanding she has of the terrain, above everybody else and knowing exactly when to let her skis go”, Shiffrin said.

American tech star Mikaela Shiffrin could only marvel at Vonn’s display of superiority. “That’s what I love”, said Vonn after her second downhill victory. “I have to go back to Europe”, indicating that she is looking forward to stronger results on more familiar snow surfaces. “We’ll just hopefully both be kicking ass”. If Vonn gets more confident, she may leave her nearest competitors even further behind. She will definitely be a gold medal favourite in the women’s alpine skiing downhill at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who swept the men’s downhill and super-G in Lake Louise last weekend, won Friday’s downhill in Beaver Creek, Colo.