Vonn has now won 70 World Cup titles during her career, 14 at Lake Louise alone.
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Lindsey Vonn reigned supreme in Lake Louise again.
Vonn won by nearly a second and a half Sunday.
The back-to-back wins put her atop the downhill standings with 200 points to 140 for Huetter after two races as she bids for an eighth World Cup crown in the discipline over the past nine seasons.
“Every win here is sweeter than the last, especially coming back from so many injuries”, Vonn said. “I struggled a little bit to find some speed, but the lower part was good”.
“Hat tricks are very hard to do”.
Her winning time on Sunday was one minute 19.79 seconds. I did my best, took full advantage of my starting number and had a ideal run. She swept all three races in 2011 and 2012.
“I still don’t think I’m quite to the form that I was in 2012”, Vonn said. Only Vonn was able to overtake the 39-ranked super G skier on the day.
Vonn’s victory was the 17th of her career at Lake Louise.
But with her latest triumph, she edged just ahead of compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin 300-296 for the overall season points lead and took the Super-G lead as well. Maze, the 2013 champion, is taking a season off.
It was Hirscher’s 15th giant slalom victory.
She also witnessed how dominant Vonn can be in Lake Louise.
Austria’s Ramona Siebenhofer was also running fast skis and entered the homestretch of Easy Street with an early lead on the day, but she launched the final jump in view of the finish line off balance and crashed through the turning gate below.
Huetter was excited after her third podium in as many days. “She knows how to carry her speed”.
She could not keep Vonn at bay, though, the American showing herself as a class apart as she surged to another impressive victory. “I caught an edge and did some sort of split manoeuvre”, Vonn said.
“I’m sure she’s going to be a strong competitor here in the next couple races”. “We’ll just hopefully both be kicking ass”.
She and Vonn are considered the leading contenders.
Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who swept the men’s downhill and super-G in Lake Louise last weekend, won Friday’s downhill in Beaver Creek, Colo.
“I think I did a good job today”.
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Alpine Canada is slowly grooming Grenier, the first woman out of the start hut Sunday, for speed events. “I felt solid on the skis and it was really fun to be honest”. “I was trying to nail the line so badly it turned out to be over-controlling”.
