Goggia earns fourth downhill win at Cortina while Vonn places 20th 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 favorite pistes.
The 32-year-old finished 0.42sec ahead of Norwegian Kajsa Vickhoff Lie to put herself nine points behind new downhill table leader and fellow-Italian Federica Brignone, who finished 0.55sec off Goggia’s blistering pace in third.
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.
Goggia added of her relationship with Brignone: “We’re very competitive, we have a good rivalry which pushes us to always go as hard as we can... we both have that hunger to be the best.”.
“There’s nothing better for us Italians than winning here at Cortina,” Goggia told RAI.
