Lauren Macuga’s most essential World Cup race win – in a super-G where Lindsey Vonn stunned again in fourth – was nothing surprising to individuals who saw the 22-year-old American’s fast further creating results.
Macuga was basically flawless on a course that got out veterans like Federica Brignone and Lara Stomach Behrami, who committed errors and knew crossing the ultimate objective that their times wouldn’t hold up.
Macuga won by 0.68 seconds on Sunday – a titanic winning edge in super-G – before Stephanie Venier of Austria, with Brignone 0.92 back in third. Olympic boss Stomach Behrami was 1.26 back in fifth.
Vonn, in the third race of her bounce back at age 40, followed Macuga by 1.24 yet no one was faster down the shaky focus part of the course than the past Olympic chief. Macuga stood course-side punching the air to recognize her accomplice’s run. Vonn smiled extensively and held her arms out wide as the racecourse savant praised her “staggering” run.
Thirty minutes sooner, Macuga had gone excessively far and set a hand to her mouth in beguile as she saw her race-driving time. Macuga was presented in the trailblazer’s holder, wearing a can cover with stars and stripes, to watch Vonn start one day after her extraordinary sixth spot finish in downhill. Macuga had been tenth in the declining on Saturday.
Vonn skied at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics in Macuga’s home area of Utah five months before the US gathering’s new star was even considered – on the fourth of July.