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There are more & ugrave; words to define the size of a champion like Lindsey Vonn. A year ago, after the serious knee injury in Schladming at the third race, the super-G in Lake Louise, arriv & ograve; fifth. Today, after another year of stop, the second race he even triumphed in the second downhill in Lake Louise always.
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A triumph that makes history: & egrave; 60th in the World Cup for Lindsey just two points from plurivittoriosa ever, l & rsquo; Austrian Annemarie Pr & ouml; ll, the 30th downhill (here the lengths of detachment from & rsquo; Austrian are six), the 12th in the downhill in Lake Louise ( the first, which was also the first-ever World Cup, won the December 3 to 10 years ago!), the 104 & deg; podium. Impressive numbers for what can & ograve; rightly be considered the pi & ugrave; largest ever especially because & eacute; there is fog, snow or shine, there's the track easy or hard, soft or hard snow, or is returned or not to racing after a year, l & agrave; where others are struggling in different racing conditions or precarious shape for her does not change anything. Simply awesome and legendary.
But there & rsquo; & egrave; another reason why this race will stay & agrave; in history: the United States had never made a hat-trick in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women, today for them & egrave; was the first time. Behind Lindsey were placed his countrymen Stacey Cook, according to 49 cents, and Julia Mancuso, third to 57 cents. Stacey won his third place then & egrave; third place d & rsquo; honor after those in the two runs of 2012 and coincidentally always behind the same athlete today, Julia downhill in Lake Louise had never done better than two fourth places but mostly it was perhaps never been so & Igrave; brilliant in December.
The festival is not the North American & egrave; ended up here because & eacute; fourth is & egrave; placed the Canadian Larisa Yurkiw, which improves its best ranking obtained in the downhill in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee last January when she was sixth, the fifth German Viktoria Rebensburg confirming feel very well on this track and it happens & egrave; l & rsquo; not only American in the top six since sixth & egrave; came the fourth US Laurenne Ross. Excellent performance for Elena Fanchini, the best of the blue, classificatasi seventh.
They punctured the race all those who could frighten Vonn: the eighth Slovenian Tina Maze who has committed a serious error in the pi & ugrave; technique without which probably would not have won but he denied the triplet to the US, the ninth & rsquo; Austrian Anna Fenninger, the twelfth liechtensteiniana Tina Weirather, the fifteenth Swiss Lara Gut, & much more ugrave; behind compatriot Dominique Gisin, good but the two Austrian Cornelia H & uuml; tter and Nicole Schmidhofer, tenth and eleventh. We will update you on the final placements of the other blue. Tomorrow the super-G that shut & agrave; the classic three-day fast races on the snow Canadians.
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