US EditionAlpine Skiing-Blanc Wins Home Super-G in Crans-Montana as Olympics Approach
- On Jan 31, 2026, Swiss racer Malorie Blanc won the final women's World Cup super-G in Crans-Montana, posting a time of one minute 17.34 from 17th on the start list, before the Milano Cortina Olympics.
- With blue skies on Saturday, the course improved as weather cleared to sunshine, producing a smoother Mont Lachaux course after Friday's snow and fog.
- Several competitors crashed or fell during the run: Emma Aicher fell after the fastest first split but finished, while Laura Gauche crashed yet appeared unhurt.
- Following Friday, Lindsey Vonn did not start after crashing and being hospitalized, with Johnson's first super-G podium boosting her Olympic team chances.
- With one race canceled and rescheduled, Goggia leads the super-G World Cup standings by 60 points over Robinson, after the season's fourth super-G was disrupted shortly after the Olympics.
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At the Alpine Skiing World Championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, 22-year-old Malorie Blanc earned a surprise victory in the giant slalom, competing in front of her home crowd.
Sofia Goggia launches a positive signal in view of the Milan Olympics "Cortina," ranking second in the superG of Crans Montana "place still shaken by the tragedy of New Year's Eve, where yesterday was canceled the descent after the first six departures "only 18 cents from Malorie Blanc, 21 year old hostess who triumphed with the time of 1"17′′34. Male Federica Brignone, seventeenth at the return at speed after the serious accident that kept her …
Sophia behind the surprise Blanc, mocking Laura Pirovano: in the head, she screwed up the last door and went out. Brignone eighteenth: "I didn't do the race I wanted"
The Swiss woman celebrates her first victory in the Ski World Cup. As ÖSV-Beste, Rädler came in seventh place, Hütter in eighth place.
Swiss skier Blanc wins super-G with Vonn sitting out day after crash
Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill race before the Winter Olympics on Friday and was airlifted from the course for medical checks, a troubling turn for the 41-year-old U.S. ski star just a week before the Milano-Cortina Games.
UPDATE 1-Alpine skiing-Blanc wins home super-G in Crans-Montana as Olympics approach | Sports-Games
Swiss racer Malorie Blanc won a super-G on home snow in Crans-Montana on Saturday for her first World Cup success in the last women's event before the Milano Cortina Olympics start next week. Italy's super-G World Cup leader Sofia Goggia and downhill world champion Breezy Johnson of the United States finished second and third in a race with a sombre backdrop after a bar fire claimed 40 lives in the Swiss resort this month.
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