Lindsey Vonn wins again at Lake Louise

Lindsey Vonn took her 70 World Cup victory, her 25 in super G (a record for both men and women in the discipline) and third career sweep of the races in Lake Louise on Sunday with a 1.32-second win over Austria’s Tamara Tippler.

Vonn won by nearly a second and a half Sunday. “I’m feeling great, and I know my super-G is good – my downhill is pretty good – so I feel like I’m in a good place for the next couple races”. On Saturday, she was a full second ahead of anyone else for victory number two.

“Every win here is sweeter than the last, especially coming back from so many injuries”, Vonn said. I love the speed. “The snow was really hard to see, any of the terrain or the little bumps, so all the way down I just didn’t feel confident at all”.

“I watched her run and I thought she did really well”, Vonn said. Her lead at the time dropped down to nine one hundredths of a second for a particular interval but then she increased her lead significantly by the end of the race back to 58 hundredths of a second.

Fabienne Suter, the American’s nearest rival, finished more than a second off the pace, while Cornelia Huetter followed her runner-up finish on Friday by claiming third (+1.16secs).

Larissa Yurkiw, of Owen Sound, Ont. was the top Canadian in 14th.

Vonn now has 68 overall World Cup wins.

Vonn’s victory was the 17th of her career at Lake Louise.

However, Vonn spent the week playing down her early-season success. Maze, the 2013 champion, is taking a season off.

Svindal remains on top of the super-G World Cup standings with 110 points.

“It was so fun”. Gut finished in eighth place, 1.85 seconds behind Vonn; however a mistake on the bottom section may have cost her some positions. Yurkiw carved so tight a turn there that she lost speed.

American tech star Mikaela Shiffrin could only marvel at Vonn’s display of superiority.

Vonn, 31, is committed to racing three more seasons because she intends to compete in the 2018 Olympics in South Korea.

Vonn’s strengths are the speed events of downhill and super-G, but she is also proficient in giant slalom.

It was Hirscher’s 15th giant slalom victory. Winning is never easy no matter what the situation, not even here in Lake Louise for me. She heads to Val-d’Isere, France, for a pair of downhills December 18-19.

“I had a pretty good run”. “It’s a good result, I am super happy about it”.

Alpine Canada is slowly grooming Grenier, the first woman out of the start hut Sunday, for speed events.

“I felt like I was trying to be aggressive and trying to still ski solidly, but nothing was kind of going my way”.