Italian Goggia charged down the Olimpia delle Tofane course which will host women's alpine skiing events at next year's winter Olympics, clocking a rapid time of one minute and 33.95 seconds.
Italy's Sofia Goggia on Saturday won the World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo. The 32-year-old from Bergamo, who won Italian women's first Olympic gold in 2018, notched her 26th World Cup win. Behind her,
Italy's Sofia Goggia has claimed her first win in over a month in the downhill on home soil in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Saturday, while compatriot Federica Brignone took the overall World Cup lead. Goggia's last victory had been at Beaver Creek's super-G on December 15,
Italian skier Sofia Goggia secured victory in the World Cup downhill event at Cortina d'Ampezzo's Olympia delle Tofane course. Despite previous injuries, Goggia finished in 1:33.95, overcoming Norway's Kajsa Vickhoff Lie and fellow Italian Federica Brignone.
A day after clinching her first World Cup downhill victory and the 30th overall win of her career, Federica Brignone on Sunday ended the super-G race in third position in St. Anton, Austria, behind winner Lauren Macuga of the US and Austria's Stephanie Venier.
Italian skiing champion Federica Brignone on Saturday clinched her first World Cup downhill victory and the 30th overall win of her career in St. Anton, Austria. Brignone won the race in 1;16.08. Italy's Laura Pirovano from Trentino Alto Adige came in fourth in 1;
ST. ANTON, Austria — Federica Brignone had zero World Cup downhill wins in her stellar career. Lindsey Vonn had a record 43. Malorie Blanc had never even started a World Cup downhill.
Sofia Goggia solidified her status as the favorite for another downhill gold by winning Saturday for the fourth time on the course for next year's Olympics.
Sofia Goggia put on a speed ski masterclass in Saturday's World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, delighting fans with a typically fearless display on home snow as Lindsey Vonn had a disappointing run on one of her favourite pistes.
Vonn finished 1.68 behind Goggia. The American standout returned to the circuit last month when she finished 14th in a super-G in St. Moritz. Then she placed sixth and fourth in a downhill and a super-G, respectively, in St. Anton, Austria, last weekend.
In her second downhill since coming back from her 2019 World Cup retirement, Lindsey Vonn looked destined for another jaw-dropping result in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Vonn charged the lower half of the Olympia delle