The American won a Apple Cup super-G Sunday for her 11th career achievement in Cortina, breaking the resort almanac of retired Austrian standout Renate Goetschl.
“It’s absurd to anticipate aback to if I was antagonism with Renate — it seemed like she won every individual chase in Cortina and she seemed unbeatable,” Vonn said. “And to accept surpassed her now it’s affectionate of harder to action all of these records. It’s harder to brainstorm accepting added success than my idols.”
By acceptable a decline on Saturday, Vonn eclipsed Annemarie Moser-Proell’s mark of 36 career wins in skiing’s covering event.
And endure year in Cortina, Vonn surpassed Moser-Proell’s women’s almanac of 62 wins beyond all events.
“This abode is abundantly appropriate for me,” Vonn said. “I’ve torn absolutely a few annal actuality now. I adore the time here. I’m consistently assured and blessed if I’m in the starting aboideau and I anticipate that shows in my skiing. … I ambition we could chase every weekend here.”
With addition near-perfect run down the Olympia delle Tofane course, Vonn exhausted Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein by 0.69 seconds, with Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany third, 1.15 back.
Vonn fabricated a slight blow adjoin the end of her run but was contrarily bland and error-free, aptitude into turns added than added competitors to advance acceleration and accretion her advance at ceremony checkpoint.
At the finish, Vonn pumped her fists a few times and acicular at the army basking in the sun on addition bright day in the boondocks accepted as the Queen of the Dolomites Range.
Vonn took the advance in the all-embracing standings from Lara Gut, who accomplished fifth, and now leads her Swiss battling by 45 points.
Vonn now has 75 wins overall, and is abutting Ingemar Stenmark’s best mark — a part of men and women — of 86.
“When I attending aback on my career afterwards I’m retired, I’ll absolutely be able to acknowledge what I’ve done,” Vonn said. “I can’t absolutely anticipate about it too abundant at this point because I’ll get distracted. I charge to break focused on my job. Appropriate now it’s just my job and if I retire again that will be my legacy.”
Vonn’s ski artisan Heinze Haemmerle said she’s assuredly aback to breadth she was afore a alarming blast and appropriate knee abrasion at the 2013 apple championships in Schladming, Austria.
“Even stronger,” Haemmerle said. “She can’t stop breaking records. Nobody can apathetic her down.”
Vonn recalled how if she recorded the actual aboriginal belvedere aftereffect of her career in Cortina 12 years ago, she accomplished third abaft then-reigning Olympic decline best Carol Montillet and Goetschl.
“I never anticipation that I would accomplish it this far in my career,” Vonn said. “If you would accept fabricated a bet, I would accept absolutely bet adjoin me. Now actuality I am, so it’s appealing incredible.”
During the belvedere ceremony, Vonn and the U.S. ski aggregation were presented with the Cortina Super Trophy — awarded to the aggregation that acquired the a lot of credibility over the two-day accommodated — which coincided with the 60th ceremony of the 1956 Olympics in Cortina.
Vonn aswell holds the almanac for wins at any individual resort with 18 at Lake Louise — giving her a absolute of 29 victories amid the Alberta, Canada, ski breadth and Cortina.
“That’s a appealing acceptable statistic,” Vonn said. “I anticipate I’ve had added wins in Lake Louise because we usually accept three contest there. I anticipate if we had added contest actuality it ability be a agnate statistic.
“But I anticipate both courses absolutely clothing me and my style, my approach and how I’m able to backpack the speed,” Vonn added. “It’s so important on both courses to assassinate assertive turns to be able to get the acceleration you charge to win the chase and I anticipate I’ve consistently accepted that absolutely able-bodied on those two courses.”
For Weirather, meanwhile, it was a bit of animus afterwards getting denied an credible belvedere aftereffect a day beforehand due to able winds.
“We had a fair chase today and I was still affectionate of affronted because of yesterday,” Weirather said. “I approved to put those affections into my skiing.”
Rebensburg had agitation landing the final jump advancing into the finish, about did the splits but recovered to authority on to a belvedere position 0.04 advanced of fourth-place finisher Conny Huetter of Austria.
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