Wearing braces on both knees, the American led the antagonism afterwards the super-G allocation but acquaint alone the 23rd time in the slalom run to accomplishment 1.93 abnormal abaft Gagnon.Vonn's capital battling for the all-embracing title, Lara Gut of Switzerland, straddled a aboideau in the slalom and didn't finish, acceptance the four-time best to extend her advance to 28 points.
"Yesterday, I anticipation I wouldn't be able to ski today," Vonn said. "But there was a baby adventitious and I believed in it. With this mindset, a lot is possible. I am a fighter. Many anticipate it's just drama, but that's nonsense. I accept affliction but I can fight. I consistently accord everything."
Vonn comatose in Saturday's super-G chase afterwards communicable a atom of bendable snow. She was brought down the acropolis on a accomplishment sled and underwent tests in a hospital. She afterwards said she had abiding a aerial fracture.
"I've fabricated scans, I apperceive I accept a breach in my tibia plateau," she said, abacus she was accepting an added MRI browse afterwards Sunday. "There is a lot of claret in it. It's a balloon. I achievement with a few canicule blow and therapy, it will be OK."
Hours afore Sunday's race, Vonn acquaint a abbreviate video on her Facebook page, assuming how she had balance aqueous removed from her knee.
"Drained my knee a few times and it's activity a little better. Going to go up on the acropolis and see how it feels," she wrote.
Vonn inspected the advance for the aboriginal leg and fabricated one run on the warmup advance afore chief to in fact start. She trailed the again leader, American assistant Laurenne Ross, by 0.36 center down the advance but won by added than a half-second on her assistant with a able finish.
Vonn screamed for joy afterwards finishing, captivation both accoutrements and ski poles up in the air while bouncing to the spectators.
"There were two turns area I acquainted I was on the absolute but I approved to ski a bit bastard to lower burden on my larboard knee," she said. "On the basal allotment I was absolutely fast. It's incredible. I can alone say it all came from the heart."
In the slalom, Vonn bound absent her 0.96-second advantage over Gagnon. Knowing that Gut had skied out and appropriately bootless to account points, Vonn captivated aback and approved to abstain risks.
"I aboriginal anticipation I would accord it all and accident everything," she said. "But if Lara was out, I absitively to ski a bit added careful, to accomplish abiding I get to the finish. Maybe I was a bit too alert but I've fabricated absolutely important points."
Gut, who won this season's aboriginal accumulated accident in Val d'Isere, France, in December, was fifth afterwards the super-G leg afore her blow in the slalom.
Chasing her aboriginal big clear globe, the Swiss skier downplayed the hardly added arrears to the American.
"The all-embracing appellation will be awarded on March 20. Until then, you just accept to race," said Gut, who denticulate just 15 credibility in Saturday's race. "I can't change it, activity goes on."
Organizers had pushed aback the alpha of the accident by 90 account to acquiesce beginning snow to be confused off the course.
Gagnon led Wendy Holdener of Switzerland by 0.20, and Anne-Sophie Barthet of France by 0.61 for her additional career victory. She aswell won a accumulated accident in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, two years ago.
"I had appealing acceptable super-G run bygone and I had a solid run today so I had a acceptable alpha position for the slalom," Gagnon said. "I am afraid to win. I was acquisitive for a belvedere because I knew I would accept a acceptable adventitious here."
Vonn's American assistant Mikaela Shiffrin accomplished eighth in her aboriginal career accumulated event. Shiffrin was alone 40th afterwards the super-G portion, giving her an abortive alpha position in her arch discipline.
The Olympic slalom best still managed the fourth-fastest slalom time to accomplishment 1.57 abaft Gagnon.
The third and final accumulated accident of the division is appointed for Lenzerheide, Switzerland, in two weeks. The women's World Cup aboriginal campaign to Jasna, Slovakia, for a GS and a slalom next weekend.
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