Lauren Macuga’s first World Cup race win – in a super-G the place Lindsey Vonn impressed once more in fourth – was no shock to those that noticed the 22-year-old American’s fast-improving outcomes.
Macuga was virtually flawless on a course that caught out veterans like Federica Brignone and Lara Intestine-Behrami, who made errors and knew crossing the end line that their occasions wouldn’t maintain up.
Macuga gained by 0.68 seconds on Sunday – an enormous profitable margin in super-G – forward of Stephanie Venier of Austria, with Brignone 0.92 again in third. Olympic champion Intestine-Behrami was 1.26 again in fifth.
Vonn, within the third race of her comeback at age 40, trailed Macuga by 1.24 but nobody was sooner down the steep center part of the course than the previous Olympic champion. Macuga stood course-side punching the air to salute her teammate’s run. Vonn smiled broadly and held her arms out broad because the racecourse commentator praised her “unbelievable” run.
Thirty minutes earlier, Macuga had crossed the road and put a hand to her mouth in delight as she noticed her race-leading time. Macuga was put in within the chief’s field, carrying a bucket hat with stars and stripes, to look at Vonn begin in the future after her spectacular sixth-place end in downhill. Macuga had been ninth within the downhill on Saturday.
Vonn skied on the 2002 Salt Lake Metropolis Olympics in Macuga’s dwelling state of Utah 5 months earlier than the US staff’s new star was even born – on the fourth of July.
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Macuga is in her third full season on the World Cup tour and had six top-10 finishes earlier than Sunday, together with fourth in a downhill final month at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Her sisters are also on US groups: Sam Macuga is a ski jumper and Alli Macuga skis moguls.
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