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Olympic champion Breezy Johnson finished the downhill season on the podium.
Johnson was second in the downhill at the World Cup finals on Saturday, March 21, just 0.15 seconds behind Italy's Laura Pirovano. It was her second podium finish of the World Cup season, following a bronze medal earlier this month.
The result moved Johnson up to third in the season downhill standings, a career best. She finished all but one race in the top 10, and was in the top five in the four downhills since winning gold in the discipline at the Milano Cortina Olympics.
Lindsey Vonn finished fifth in the season standings despite not skiing in the last four races following her devastating crash at the Olympics. Vonn had taken a big lead into the Games, having been on the podium in each of the first five races, including two wins.
Pirovano won the season title after winning the last three races of the season. Germany's Emma Aicher was second.
Aicher is also second in the overall standings, and the 45 points she got from the downhill race helped make up ground on Mikaela Shiffrin. Aicher now trails the Olympic slalom champion by just 95 points with three races left.
Both Aicher and Shiffrin plan to ski the last three races: the super-G, the giant slalom and the slalom. The GS and slalom are Shiffrin's best events, and she's won all but one slalom race this season.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Breezy Johnson, Olympic champion, wins silver at World Cup finals
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Johnson was second in the downhill at the World Cup finals on Saturday, March 21, just 0.15 seconds behind Italy's Laura Pirovano. It was her second podium finish of the World Cup season, following a bronze medal earlier this month.
The result moved Johnson up to third in the season downhill standings, a career best. She finished all but one race in the top 10, and was in the top five in the four downhills since winning gold in the discipline at the Milano Cortina Olympics.
Lindsey Vonn finished fifth in the season standings despite not skiing in the last four races following her devastating crash at the Olympics. Vonn had taken a big lead into the Games, having been on the podium in each of the first five races, including two wins.
Pirovano won the season title after winning the last three races of the season. Germany's Emma Aicher was second.
Aicher is also second in the overall standings, and the 45 points she got from the downhill race helped make up ground on Mikaela Shiffrin. Aicher now trails the Olympic slalom champion by just 95 points with three races left.
Both Aicher and Shiffrin plan to ski the last three races: the super-G, the giant slalom and the slalom. The GS and slalom are Shiffrin's best events, and she's won all but one slalom race this season.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Breezy Johnson, Olympic champion, wins silver at World Cup finals
Continue reading...
