Alpine Skiing-Superb Suter wins women's downhill in Garmisch

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Corinne Suter boosted her confidence ahead of the winter Olympics in Beijing after a flawless run saw her win a World Cup downhill race in Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday. The 27-year old Swiss, the reigning world downhill champion who is yet to win an Olympic medal, stormed down the course i

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Corinne Suter boosted her confidence ahead of the winter Olympics in Beijing after a flawless run saw her win a World Cup downhill race in Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.

Austrian Cornelia Huetter finished third, 0.78 seconds off the pace. The podium finishers took advantage of the absence of overall World Cup downhill leader Sofia Goggia, who faces a race against time to recover from injury in time for the Olympics. Suter, who moved up to second place in the overall downhill standings - on 331 points behind Goggia who has 400 - was delighted after shining on the speedy Kandahar course.

"I felt great today from the first gate and although I've got the Olympics on my mind, I tried to keep a clear head and ski freely."

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