Alpine skiing-Vonn wins in Cortina to break downhill record (Reuters)
American Lindsey Vonn won the women’s World Cup downhill in Cortina, Italy on Saturday to set a record of 37 victories in the speed discipline. The 31-year-old former Olympic champion clocked a time of one minute 37.1 seconds to win by 0.28 seconds from Canada’s Larisa Yurkiw with Swiss Lara Gut in third. The victory took Vonn past the 36 downhill wins of Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell, who dominated women’s ski racing in the 1970s and was in the stands to watch the American equal her record in Austria last week.