Lindsey Vonn won the season-opening World Cup downhill Friday for her 16th victory at Lake Louise, Alberta, and her 34th career World Cup downhill victory. She finished in 1 minute 50.5 seconds. Cornelia Hütter was second in 1:51.08.
u25a0 Aksel Lund Svindal won his third straight World Cup race, holding off Kjetil Jansrud in a demanding downhill in Beaver Creek, Colo. Svindal finished in 1 minute 42.34 seconds to beat Jansrud by 0.30 of a second.
u25a0 Sara Takanashi won the season-opening event on the women’s ski jump World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway, overcoming a tremendous first jump by Maja Vtic.