2010 OLYMPIC PREVIEW: ALPINE WOMEN
VONNTOURAGE THE INVINCIBLE LINDSEY VONN IS READY TO TAKE VANCOUVER 2010 BY STORM
histler’s Britt Janyk became the first Canadian female to win a World Cup downhill in 14 years when she won the 2007 downhill in Aspen, Colorado. That’s the good news. The bad news is she has been somewhat invisible since finishing third in the overall World Cup standings that season. But Janyk is a self-proclaimed reborn Whistlerite, and racing on her home hill could provide a spark to help her win the women’s downhill a stone’s throw from her family’s house. But it will be two-time defending World Cup champion Lindsey Vonn who will steal the Whistler show. The American superstar – leader of Vonntourage – closed out last season with world golds in her marquee disciplines, the downhill and the super-G, and she is primed to be a threat in four disciplines, possibly five — if she avoids broken champagne bottles in the winner’s circle early in the week. Let’s just say the downhill is a done deal. She won back-toback downhills to start the 2009-10 World Cup season, with ease, and will be nearly impossible to beat in Whistler.
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Lindsey Vonn. Photo: Paul Morrison/SRC
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