VAL D'ISERE, France (AP) — Swiss skier Lara Gut beat American Lindsey Vonn by .01 seconds to win a thrilling World Cup super-combined race on Friday and deprive Vonn of a fifth straight win.
Vonn led after the morning's downhill section, with Gut .38 behind in second place. But after Gut beat Michaela Kirchgasser's leading mark to take the race lead, the pressure was on Vonn.
Even though slalom is not her strongest discipline, Vonn was .01 down at the first and second time splits on the Oreiller Killy course.
"It's more exciting when I have a bigger lead and I don't have to be stressed out in slalom.