Lindsey Vonn 3rd quickest in training for WCup downhill race (The Associated Press)

VAL D’ISERE, France (AP) — American Lindsey Vonn was third quickest in a downhill training run Wednesday at Val d’Isere, one of her favorite resorts. Larisa Yurkiw of Canada was quickest in 1 minute, 47.79 seconds, with Nicole Schmidhofer of Austria. Vonn has made an outstanding start to the season by winning four races so far: two downhill and a Super-G at Lake Louise in Canada and a giant slalom last weekend in the Swedish resort of Are, extending her record to 71 race wins.