Ester Ledecka regains downhill winning form at World Cup stop in Switzerland

Czech skier Ester Ledecka shrugged off her Olympic disappointment Saturday by winning the first women's World Cup downhill after the Beijing Games.

Ledecka had an attacking run down the Mont Lachaux course in perfect sunny conditions to earn her third career win and second in downhill, more than two years after her maiden triumph in Lake Louise, Alta.

"It was a really nice run. I did a lot of things better than in training," she said from Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Ledecka usually does well in the Central Swiss ski resort, gaining three of her seven career podiums here. However, she placed only 50th and 40th, respectively, in the training runs over the past two days.

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Ledecka said she suffered from muscle problems since returning from the Olympics.

"I had a bit of health troubles last week. So, it was difficult to get back to full strength," she said. "Those two trainings were very difficult for me; those were the worse trainings of my career. But today I felt much better, the body was ready for the race."

Saturday's triumph came 11 days after Ledecka finished only 27th in the Olympic downhill.

That result followed her fifth place in the super-G and meant she missed out on a repeat of her achievement from the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, when she won a gold medal in both Alpine skiing and snowboarding.

"There were only two days after the snowboard race to prepare for the super-G. So, after all, I think we did good work there," said Ledecka, who did win the snowboarding parallel giant slalom race again in Beijing.

On Saturday, Ledecka stopped the clock in one minute 30.17 seconds to beat Ragnhild Mowinckel (1:30.38) by 21-100ths of a second. It was the