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Sofia Goggia triumphs in SuperG ahead of Robinson and Vonn

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Sofia Goggia redeems herself and makes the Val d’Isere Women&#8217s World Cup super-G her own. After Saturday’s downhill mistake that forced her to postpone her appointment with victory, the Bergamasque rediscovered herself and triumphed on the French Oreiller-Killy slope.

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Lindsey Vonn wins the downhill in St. Moritz that opened the World Cup fast track season
The 41-year-old U.S. woman, back in the race last season after five years off from competition, dominates on the 'Corviglia' .
Vonn returns to triumph nearly eight years after'her last World Cup victory.
The American champion made the difference in the second part of the race finishing in 1'29"63.
Second the Austrian Maddalena Egger who is 98 hundredths behind Vonn.

Third was compatriot Miriam Puchner, more than a second behind the winner.
Sofia Goggia finishes at the foot of the podium in fourth place with 1'31 delay.
For Vonn this is the'83rd career World Cup victory.
The American becomes the'oldest athlete to achieve a World Cup success.
Vonn breaks Federica Brignone’s record who had won a World Cup superG race when she was more than 34 years old.

For Vonn, it is also the 44th personal downhill success.
The all-time queen in speed has sent a clear message ahead of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics

Goggia finished with a time of 1’20″24, ahead of New Zealand’s Alice Robinson, fifteen hundredths behind. On the lowest step of the podium was Lindsey Vonn of the United States, thirty-six hundredths behind the leader. Just off the podium was Elena Curtoni, who finished fourth.

“Yesterday was a hard day for me, I cried an’hour for the opportunity thrown away – said Goggia to RAI microphones -The pain of today is the fuel of tomorrow, I wrote it to Gasperini, the coach of Roma who did so much for Bergamo and to whom I am linked. I started from the pain of not being able to express myself, winning today is nice. And it fits”.

For Goggia this is her 27th World Cup victory, the’eighth in SuperG. Thanks to this success, l’Azzurra flies to third place in the overall standings, behind Mikaela Shiffrin and Alice Robinson.

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