Alpine skiing-Suter wins Soldeu downhill, Aicher closes gap to absent Vonn
Feb 27 : Switzerland’s Corinne Suter won the first women’s downhill after the Milano Cortina Olympics on Friday with Germany’s Emma Aicher fourth in Andorra to slash Lindsey Vonn’s World Cup lead to 94 points with three races remaining. Vonn’s season is over after the U.S. Alpine ski great crashed in the Olympic downhill, shattering her left leg and undergoing multiple rounds of surgery to save it. The 41-year-old has said it will take around a year for all the bones to heal. Suter’s victory in Soldeu was the 31-year-old’s first podium of the season, sixth career win and the first time the 2021 downhill world champion and 2022 Olympic champion had stood on the top step since a super-G in December 2022. The Swiss, who was only 14th at the Milano Cortina Games this month after being sidelined by injury in December, started fourth and beat Austrian Nina Ortlieb by 0.11 seconds, with Italian Sofia Goggia third. World and Olympic champion Breezy Johnson of the United States was fifth. Italy’s double 2026 Olympic gold …