Vonn, whose final podium in the USA earlier than Sunday got here in a Downhill in Aspen in 2017, mentioned it was seemingly her ultimate race on residence snow as the ladies’s pace tour does not typically go to American resorts.
“At this time I wished to give all the things I had for the house crowd,” she mentioned. “That is my final likelihood in my profession to race at residence and I simply gave it all the things I had.”
The USA star’s late cost pushed Brignone into third, her seventh consecutive World Cup Super G podium in a magical season that did not fairly have the ending it deserved.
The Italian, who sealed the Total and Downhill crowns on Saturday and might nonetheless win the Big Slalom title, knew she seemingly had to end forward of Gut-Behrami to maintain her four-globe dream alive.
After a slim inexperienced gentle on the highest part of the course, Brignone was out of rhythm the remainder of the way in which down and Gut-Behrami’s time — and the globe — rapidly fell out of attain.
“I began good, I felt good, however from the center half on I blocked myself utterly and I wasn’t ready to do what I wished,” the Rossignol star mentioned.
“I used to be too confused possibly in the present day.”
