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Milan Cortina 2026, Sofia Goggia is bronze in the downhill race

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Breezy Johnson won the gold medal in the women’s downhill at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. On the Tofane Olympia behind the U.S., who finished her effort with a time of 1.36.10, was Germany&#8217s Emma Aicher, just 4 hundredths behind, and a phenomenal Sofia Goggia (+0.59 behind the triumphant skier) who took the bronze medal.

Luca GiorgettiLindsey Vonn, tremendous fall and end of Olympic dream in Cortina: photos

Lindsey Vonn falls after very few seconds in the downhill on the Tofane Olympia at Milan-Cortina 2026.
Thus ends the attempt to rewrite history by the champion. Astonished audience.
The race is immediately stopped after the fall of the American champion.
She closes in tears the dream of winning an Olympic medal at 41 years old.

Vonn aimed to overtake compatriot Breezy Johnson, in the lead up to that point.
Started with bib 13, she chooses a very high line at the'entrance of the first crossbar.
He hits a goal with his right shoulder, loses his balance and falls ruinously.

The'impact takes place on the'Olympia of the Tofane, a track where he had already triumphed twelve times in his career.
The screams of pain of the champion break the silence of Cortina.

In previous days she had revealed the complete rupture of the cruciate ligament in Crans Montana.
The'injury had occurred in the'last World Cup race before the Olympics.
The first responders arrive immediately on the track after the fall.
Vonn is immobilized and loaded onto the toboggan by rescuers.
The'helicopter transports away the American champion from the Tofane.

In the meantime, the ski world is anxious about Lindsey Vonn after her tremendous fall. It ended after just a few meters at the Winter Olympics for the U.S. outfielder. The champion decomposed and went into a spin. Her screams of pain went around the world making the scene even more poignant. The descent was stopped for rescue and resumed some 20 minutes later as Vonn was transported by helicopter to the hospital.

“I am happy with my performance, seeing how I got here – said Federica Brignone, who finished in 10th place, to the microphones of Rai Sport -. Clearly I am not the one from last year, I don&#8217t have the same kilometers, I don&#8217t have the same confidence. I don&#8217t have what I had last year, so I am very, very happy with what I did today. For me to still do a performance like that on a home day, the way I was just even last week is a lot of stuff”.

“Now I need to calm down for a moment: all these jumps and things have been pretty powerful, especially all the landings, so I will have to give some relief to my shin and stuff. But again, I am satisfied, I know that if I had gotten here last year it would have been different, but still just being in the race today for me was really special and so I am happy” concluded Tiger.

In the downhill of the previous edition, the one in Beijing 2022, the gold went to Corinne Suter, solid and precise on the day that counted. Behind her, Sofia Goggia took a hefty silver after a season marred by injuries. Bronze went to Nadia Delago, who completed a historic Italian one-two.

It was Sofia Goggia’s Olympics in Pyeongchang 2018. Her downhill was aggressive, clean, without hesitation: very well-deserved gold. The silver went to Ragnhild Mowinckel, the bronze to Lindsey Vonn.

A unique edition in Sochi in 2014: the gold ex aequo went to Tina Maze and Dominique Gisin, with the exact same time. Bronze went to Lara Gut, then at the beginning of a long career at the top and not yet married to Valon Behrami.

In Vancouver 2010, Lindsey Vonn dominated, winning gold and confirming herself as the queen of speed. Silver took Julia Mancuso, bronze Elisabeth Goergl.

On the home snows for Italy, the gold from the 2006 Turin edition went to Michaela Dorfmeister.

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