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Germany's Emma Aicher reacts in the finish area after heat two of the women's Alpine Skiing competition at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina. Michael Kappeler/dpa
Corinne Suter won the first World Cup ski race after the Winter Olympics on Friday while Emma Aicher tops the chasing pack for the downhill World Cup title in the absence of discipline leader Lindsey Vonn.
Switzerland's Suter, the 2021 world and 2022 Olympic downhill champion, led the way in Soldeu, Andorra to end a winning drought of four years in the discipline with a sixth career World Cup success.
She won .11 of a second from Austrian Nina Ortlieb and .24 ahead of 2018 Olympic champion and Milan/Cortina Games bronze medallist Sofia Goggia of Italy.
Olympic silver medallist Aicher was fourth, ahead of gold medallist and reigning world champion Breezy Johnson of the United States.
Suter was delighted with the return to form after missing the start of the season in the wake of a training crash and only joining in January.
"It was not so easy with the start of the season. It takes a lot of time until now, but today is a special day for me and I had so much fun on the hill, and this is also why I was very fast," she said.
Vonn leads the downhill standings but is out for the rest of the season with left leg fractures she sustained in crash in the Olympic race on February 8.
There are still 300 points up for grabs in the remaining three downhills. Aicher moved within 94 points of Vonn and fellow German Kira Weidle-Winkelmann is third, 144 points back, after coming 11th on Friday. Goggia is 160 points behind in fourth.
Aicher told broadcasters ARD she was "absolutely not thinking" about the discipline globe. "I have to focus on myself so that I ski well. Otherwise there is no chance."
Two super-g races are scheduled in Soldeu for Saturday and Sunday. The men have their first post-Olympic races the same days, a downhill and super-g at the German venue of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
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