Multitalented Ester Ledecka adds first World Cup downhill victory to trophy case

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Multitalented Ester Ledecka adds first World Cup downhill victory to trophy case Globe_Sports

A second downhill is scheduled for Saturday followed by Sunday’s super-G.Defending World Cup downhill champion Nicole Schmidhofer of Austria placed seventh.The women raced in conditions akin to a shaken snow globe.

“They did such a good job that I don’t think anybody was worried they could do it,” Shiffrin said. “It’s just we need the snow to stop now.“When it accumulates like that, it starts to get slower on the flats and on the bottom. If you’re in the soft snow, it slowed you down like crazy.” The 30-year-old has stood on the World Cup podium in slalom and alpine combined. She’s looking for gains in downhill and said Friday was a step in that direction.

 

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