Goggia won the women’s downhill Wednesday at Jeongseon Alpine Center as Vonn earned bronze.
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“Ragnhild is an incredible competitor, and she has really been stepping up in the last few weeks”.
Lindsey Vonn, the target of hateful comments on social media, said she has no plans to change her social media strategy and disengage.
Even though Lindsey Vonn didn’t win a medal during the 2018 Winter Olympics, she still keeps her head up. And when she reaches the finish line, a golden but tumultuous Olympic career will likely be over. She knew that mistake probably would be fatal to her medal hopes.
Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather took the bronze medal in 1:21.22 as Switzerland’s Lara Gut dropped to fourth in 1:21.23 after Ledecká’s stunning run. She told NBC before the race that this was a “disadvantage”. To watch her get silver in the super-g was really cool.
Vonn will start No. 7 on Wednesday, right where she wanted to be, racing soon after big rival Sofia Goggia. “It might not be a medal, but I definitely gave it everything I had”.
“I was just staring at the board and nothing was happening and everybody was screaming”. I’m disappointed but I’m not upset. My teammates have really supported me and we’ve helped each other.
Not many snowboarders can slap on a pair of borrowed skis and go on to win a super-G Olympic gold medal, but that’s exactly what Ester Ledecka did on Saturday in Pyeongchang, South Korea, becoming the latest Olympic underdog to notch a surprising victory. She smiled, waved to the cameras, and rallied the USA cheering section.
Beating Vonn on Wednesday was her friend and rival Sofia Goggia of Italy, who now sits one spot ahead of Vonn at No. 1 in the current World Cup downhill standings.
Austria’s Stephanie Venier also had a race to forget, losing control of her skis as she pushed to shave vital hundredths of a second off her time and tumbling down the slope, a fate that also befell Italians Nadia Fanchini and Federica Brignone.
Vonn won gold in the same event in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, though she missed the Sochi Games due to injury.
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“I’m enjoying being at the Olympics”. I love what I do. “I tried so hard and I worked my butt off”. I’m proud of the way I skied and how I attacked the course. “And it didn’t quite turn out the way I’d hoped”. Vonn entered Saturday’s event ranked No. 10 in the World Cup’s super-G standings and had competed in five super-G race this season, winning December 16 in Val d’Isere, France.
