It would be difficult to find an athlete in any sport that had a weekend like Lindsey Vonn just had. On Sunday, in Tarvisio, Italy, Vonn clinched her third discipline title in three days with a super-G victory to wrap up an incredible weekend of racing.
Vonn also took the super-combined and downhill titles over the weekend and has moved within 96 points of German rival and good friend Maria Riesch in the overall standings with six races remaining this season.
Vonn holds an insurmountable 171-point lead over Riesch in the super-G standings with one race remaining in the discipline this season.
It was the 41st World Cup victory of Vonn’s career, moving her within one win of fourth on the all-time list behind Sweden’s Anja Paerson, who finished fifth Sunday to follow up her downhill victory a day earlier.
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Back in the U.S., the Killington Mountain School (KMS) Freestyle Team went 1-2-3-4 in men’s moguls over the weekend at the USSA Eastern Freestyle Eastern Divisional Championships at Waterville Valley, N.H. Nick Keating, of Waterbury Center, took top honors, followed by Bridgewater’s Bryan Zemba with KMS junior Darius Baradaran, of Goshen, N.Y., finishing third. KMS senior Tyler Wadhams, of Hebron, Conn., just missed the podium in fourth place.
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Nearly 75 disabled ski racers from across New York and Massachusetts will participate in STRIDE’s 16th Annual “Great Race / Diana Golden Mills Cup Level I Adaptive Race” to be held on Saturday at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock, Mass.
The race was named after Diana Golden, an American disabled ski racer from Lincoln, Mass., who lost a leg to cancer at age 12, and went on to win 10 world and 19 U.S. championships between 1986 and 1990 as a “three-tracker,” or one-legged skier.
Golden also won an Olympic gold medal in giant slalom at the 1988 Calgary Games, where disabled skiing was a demonstration sport. She participated in alpine skiing at two Winter Paralympic Games. After retiring from skiing, her cancer returned, resulting in her death in 2001.
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Hunter Mountain will hold a charity event on Sunday in its Snowtubing Park to benefit the Mountain Top Relay for Life. A portion of revenue from the Snowtubing Park will be donated to the charity, operated by the American Cancer Society. The event will take place from 5-7 p.m. at Hunter Mountain in its Snowtubing Park, set adjacent to its base lodge. A discounted snow-tubing ticket price will be offered at $15 per person; $10 of that ticket price will be donated to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life for the Mountain Top.
