US EditionPirovano takes first downhill win as Aicher closes in on Vonn
- At Val di Fassa on Friday, Emma Aicher finished second, just 0.90 behind Laura Pirovano in a photo finish that marked Pirovano's first World Cup win in her 125th start.
- With neither Lindsey Vonn nor Mikaela Shiffrin starting Friday, the race was rescheduled after abandonment five weeks ago following Vonn's ACL injury at Crans-Montana.
- Speeds topped 130 kph as two former Olympic champions dropped out after losing time on the 2.3-kilometre course, and Aicher collected 80 World Cup points Friday.
- The podium reshuffled downhill standings as Emma Aicher reduced Lindsey Vonn's lead to 14 with two races left, while Laura Pirovano rose to third, trailing 64 behind Vonn and 50 behind Aicher.
- With eight races left, the season finale could see Shiffrin start a super-G Sunday, as Suter and Goggia finished eighth and 17th respectively.
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Today, the second World Cup descent in Val di Fassa is on the program. We report live – see Ticker below. Here is the live ticker: Laura Pirovano won the first descent on Friday. The 28-year-old Italian won 1/100 seconds ahead of the German Emma Aicher and 0.29 ahead of US Olympic champion Breezy Johnson. Cornelia Hütter landed on the hard and compactly prepared "La Volata" as the best Austrian in fifth place (+0.34), Ariane Rädler became sixth …
The German ski racer Emma Aicher recently collected so many World Cup points that the seemingly invincible American Shiffrin now has to fear for her overall victory.
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The Straits TimesAlpine skiing-Pirovano takes first downhill win as Aicher closes in on Vonn
March 6 : Italy's Laura Pirovano won a women's Alpine skiing downhill by the slimmest of margins on home snow on Friday as Germany's Emma Aicher closed in on absent American Lindsey Vonn at the top of the World Cup leaderboard in the discipline.Olympic silver medallist Aicher finished second in the first of t
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