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2014 Alpine Skiing Womens World Cup Overall Winner?

2014 Alpine Skiing Womens World Cup Overall Winner?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in Sports » Wintersports
Settled on 03/13/2014 20:20 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:Anna Fenninger Anna Fenninger was rewarded for a fine season-long showing by winning her very first overall World Cup title on Thursday.

The 24-year-old Austrian finished second in the last super-G race of the season at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide in Switzerland.

But the result was enough for her to add the World Cup crystal globe to her Olympic super-G gold medal and giant slalom silver she won in Sochi last month.

http://www.euronews.com/2014/03/13/anna-fenninger-wins-maiden-world-cup-title/

Predictions

Anna Fenninger
Anna Fenninger
51.1% →
Tina Maze
Tina Maze
25.5% →
Maria Hoefl-Riesch
Maria Hoefl-Riesch
10.1% →
Lindey Vonn
Lindey Vonn
8.2% →
<i>Other</i>
Other
5.1% →

Background

It was the very first race of this year's World Championships and Lindsey Vonn was confident of wresting back her Super-G title. Just five seconds in, the story went off script, and Vonn off course.

On the Schladming slopes on an arctic Austrian February afternoon, the American downhill Olympic champion's first jump on the course initially appeared to go to plan but, as she landed, her weight seemed to shift too far forward and her right knee buckled virtually to a right angle beneath her.

Less than seven months later in September, Vonn clipped back into her skis on the slopes of Portillo, Chile, to test the reconstructed knee, insisting "I can't tell which knee is injured" and that she was "skiing without fear."

Her plan is now to return to competitive skiing at the World Cup meeting in Beaver Creek, Colorado, from 29 November to 1 December.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/14/sport/lindsey-vonn-ski-crashes/

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   Super Userkruijs

Reigning Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn crashed Tuesday while training in Copper Mountain, Colo., ahead of her planned return to racing following major knee surgery.

U.S. Ski Team spokesman Tom Kelly said Vonn was taken down the hill on a sled, which he noted was normal protocol in such cases. Kelly said he was not sure whether Vonn hurt her surgically repaired right knee in the fall at the team's speed training center.

http://espn.go.com/olympics/skiing/story/_/id/10001449/lindsey-vonn-crashes-prepping-return-racing

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