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“Chills” That was the mood Sofia Goggia was feeling when she was back on skis for the first time in a little under a fortnight. Ad/> The Italian star posted the message to her Instagram on Friday, the post that all of her fans, and the Alpine skiing community at large, had been waiting for. Next stop? The Olympic Games.
Olympic Downhill champion Sofia Goggia has confirmed that she is back on skis less than two weeks after a horrible crash in Cortina. Goggia, who won Olympic gold four years ago in Pyeongchang has been in excellent over the past two seasons and was looking like one of the favourites for gold in Beijing. Ad/> Goggia gave the Italian fans a scare when she tumbled down the mountain in the Super-G at Cortina and ended up spraining her left knee as well as partially tearing a cruciate ligament and suffering a minor fracture of the fibula bone in the leg.
Cornelia Huetter and Federica Brignone tied for first place in a World Cup super-G on Sunday, in the final race before the Beijing Olympics.
Corinne Suter boosted her confidence ahead of the winter Olympics in Beijing after a flawless run saw her win a World Cup downhill race in Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.
World champion Corinne Suter showed she is finding her best form just in time for the Winter Olympics by winning the final World Cup downhill race before Beijing. With several other top skiers skipping the race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Suter put down a clean run to earn her first win of the season. She clocked 1:40.74 on the classic course, finishing half a second ahead of Swiss team-mate Jasmine Flury.
Corinne Suter appears to have found her downhill form at the perfect time as she claimed her first Alpine Ski World Cup victory of the season in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. With the Beijing Olympic Winter Games getting underway in just a week's time, Suter could hardly have picked a better moment to stand atop the World Cup podium for the first time since December 2020. Ad/> She skied confidently and adeptly in Garmisch as she won comfortably in a time of 1:40.74, a full 0.51s ahead of fellow Swiss star Jasmine Flury, who scored just a second World Cup podium finish of her career after a previous lone success back in 2017.
(Reuters) - Corinne Suter boosted her confidence ahead of the winter Olympics in Beijing after a flawless run saw her win a World Cup downhill race in Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.
In the absence of Sofia Goggia, world champion Corinne Suter won the last downhill before the Beijing Olympics.