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Fresh from overtaking the absent Mikaela Shiffrin in the women's World Cup overall standings, Lara Gut-Behrami won a shortened downhill on Friday in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, to close in on the injured Sofia Goggia in the discipline standings.
Swedish skier Anna Swenn Larsson earned her second career victory Sunday in the first women's World Cup slalom in nearly 13 years with neither Mikaela Shiffrin nor Petra Vlhova competing.
For Lara Gut-Behrami, ski racing isn't all about winning races any more. It's just as much about avoiding injuries, too.
SOLDEU, Andorra — Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami came from a long way behind to win a women's World Cup giant slalom by one-hundredth of a second Saturday and overtake the absent Mikaela Shiffrin on top of the overall standings.
Norwegian skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde said on Thursday that he was unsure if he would ever return to his competitive best after his horror crash during a World Cup downhill race on the Lauberhorn course in Wengen last month.
Lara Gut-Behrami won a World Cup giant slalom by a large margin on Tuesday in Kronplatz, Italy and trimmed Mikaela Shiffrin's lead in the overall standings to 95 points with the American out injured.
French Alpine skier Nils Allegre celebrated a surprise first World Cup win, and first podium appearance in eight years of trying, after a weather-affected super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.
Norwegian skier Ragnhild Mowinckel kept her focus to win a wind-affected World Cup downhill after a series of crashes and delays marked the race Saturday.