Sofia Goggia has won her third super-G of the season at the World Cup finals to secure the discipline title and Emma Aicher further closed the gap to overall leader Mikaela Shiffrin.

Lindsey Vonn finally lost her lead in the World Cup downhill standings when Laura Pirovano won by 0.01 seconds on back-to-back days at Val di Fassa.

In the absence of injured Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, Emma Aicher seized her chance at a World Cup downhill on Friday to cut the American superstars’ leads in the season-long standings.

Emma Aicher has dominated the first women’s super-G since the Olympics to earn her fifth career World Cup win as the fight for the season discipline title got fresh impetus.

Former Olympic and world downhill champion Corinne Suter has won the first World Cup race since the Milan Cortina Games.

Lindsey Vonn has showed again she is the standout downhill racer in this Olympic season.

Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter has crashed in training and cannot ski until about a month before she is due to defend her title.

Federica Brignone has edged out teammate Sofia Goggia by the smallest possible margin for an Italian 1-2 finish in a women’s World Cup downhill.

Lindsey Vonn has fallen while on pace for a top-5 finish at a World Cup super-G on the course that will host skiing at next year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Mikaela Shiffrin, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Petra Vlhova, Alexis Pinturault, Corinne Suter.

American skier Bella Wright has been airlifted off the course after crashing in a World Cup downhill.

Swiss skier Priska Nufer has got a breakout win at age 30 in a World Cup downhill on home snow at Crans-Montana.

Sofia Goggia of Italy won silver in the women's downhill just 23 days after a crash left her with multiple knee injuries.

Switzerland's Corinne Suter holds the gold medal on the podium after the women's downhill, at the alpine ski World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. Goggia had won the last four downhills on the World Cup circuit, after Suter had triumphed in the first race of the downhill season in France in December. Suter believed her second place in the worlds opener helped her believe she could win gold in downhill two days later. She also won gold in both speed events at the junior worlds seven years ago. Gut-Behrami seemed on course for her second gold medal in two days when she led Suter by more than three-tenths for most of her run.

Switzerland's Corinne Suter celebrates on the podium after she won the gold medal in the women's downhill, at the alpine ski World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. ___12:10 p.m.Corinne Suter won the women's downhill at the world championships to give Switzerland its second gold medal. AdGerman skier Kira Weidle finished 0.20 behind for silver and Lara Gut-Behrami was 0.37 back in third. Gut-Behrami won gold and Suter silver in Thursday's super-G.American racer Breezy Johnson came nine-tenths off the lead in ninth. ___9:45 a.m.Italian skier Francesca Marsaglia is set to open the women’s downhill at the world championships at 11 a.m. local time.

The 2016 overall World Cup champion beat Swiss teammate Corinne Suter by 0.34 seconds, living up to her billing as the main favorite after winning the last four super-Gs on the World Cup circuit. Ad“It’s a disappointment not to win gold. Even when I made a mistake, I still felt good about my skiing,” Shiffrin said. Petra Vlhova, the overall World Cup leader from Slovakia, finished ninth, nearly two weeks after gaining her first career super-G podium. “The worst thing today was the silence,” said Brignone, who is the defending overall World Cup champion.

Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami smiles at the end of an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G in St. Anton, Austria, Sunday, Jan.10, 2021. All rights reservedST. ANTON – It took the veteran skills of Lara Gut-Behrami to win a tricky World Cup super-G on Sunday. World Cup super-G champion Corinne Suter was third, trailing her Switzerland teammate by 0.20. Gut-Behrami’s 13th win in World Cup super-G came more than 12 years after her debut victory in a discipline that demands speed and technical ability to improvise. Now 29, the 2016 World Cup overall champion won both of her career season-long discipline titles in super-G.Gut-Behrami was set to rise to fifth in the overall standings, ahead of three-time champion Mikaela Shiffrin.

Czech Republic's Ester Ledecka speeds down the course during an alpine ski women's World Cup Super G in Val d'Isere, France, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)VAL D'ISERE – VAL D'Ester Ledecka edged Corinne Suter for her first win in a women’s World Cup super-G on Sunday, nearly three years after winning Olympic gold in the discipline. The Czech skier finished three hundredths ahead of Suter, the World Cup super-G champion from Switzerland who won a downhill on the same slope Friday. Brignone’s Italian teammate, Marta Bassino, was fourth, and overall World Cup leader Petra Vlhova finished sixth. The three-time overall champion was expected back in action at technical races in Semmering, Austria on Dec. 28-29.

Switzerland's Corinne Suter crosses the finish line during an alpine ski, women's World Cup Downhill, in Val d'Isere, France, Friday, Dec.18, 2020. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)VAL D'ISERE – VAL D'Corinne Suter won the first women's World Cup downhill of the season and Nicole Schmidhofer was injured in a high-speed crash that sent her through the safety fencing on Friday. The Austrian ski federation said Schmidhofer likely ruptured the ligaments in her left knee and was taken to a clinic in Innsbruck for further examination. Schmidhofer, the 2018-19 downhill champion and 2017 super-G world champion, was one of four skiers to get in trouble on the course, where visibility was a problem because of alternating shadow and sunny spots. Last season, Suter became the first skier to win the downhill and super-G titles in the same season since American great Lindsey Vonn in 2015-16.