Goggia resumes winning ways in Lake Louise, takes season’s 1st women’s downhill
Global News
The Italian ski racer's win in the season-opening women's World Cup downhill was her fourth-straight victory at the Banff National Park resort.
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.
“Winning by four hundredths of a second, what is it? It’s uncountable.”