Goggia resume winning ways in Lake Louise, takes season's first women's downhill
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Sofia Goggia picked up where she left off in Lake Louise, Alta.
Sofia Goggia picked up where she left off in Lake Louise, Alta.
The Italian ski racer's win Friday in the season-opening women's World Cup downhill was her fourth straight victory at the Banff National Park resort, including her sweep of last year's three races.
"I'm super-happy with the outcome and result but I'm still not happy with my performance because I think I was a bit too wild and dirty today," Goggia told The Canadian Press.
She nevertheless laid down a winning time of one minute 47.81 seconds.
Just six hundredths of a second separated first from third with reigning Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter of Switzerland crossing the line four-hundredths back of Goggia.
Austria's Cornelia Huetter finished third.
"I was really in tension and anxiety when they were coming down, because you never know. It is a game of hundredths with this course, which lasts three kilometres," Goggia said.
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