For all the worry about her famously injured shin, it was a common skiing mistake that ended Lindsey Vonn‘s bid for a second Olympic gold medal in two days.
Though Vonn’s bruised right leg was “killing me,” she said she simply failed to get her ski around a right-hand gate and fell in the slalom run of the super combined.
“The shin wasn’t the reason why I didn’t finish the race,” Vonn said. “It was just because I hooked a tip, and that happens in ski racing all the time. I just wish it wasn’t at the Olympic Games.”
Maria Riesch of Germany won the event.
Riesch had a total time of 2 minutes, 09.14 seconds to beat Julia Mancuso of the United States by 0.94 second. Mancuso got her second silver medal after being runner-up to Vonn in the downhill. Anja Paerson of Sweden took the combined bronze.
Lindsey Vonn
BIATHLON: Norwegians Emil Hegle Svendsen and Tora Berger won the men’s 20-kilometer individual event and the women’s 15-kilometer individual race, respectively.
CURLING: John Shuster apologized for his inconsistent shot-making, a performance that has all but doomed the winless American men curlers in the Olympics. “I’ve let my teammates and USA Curling down,” said Shuster, the usually dependable U.S. skip.
The Americans lost to Denmark, 7-6, in another extra end. They are 0-4 and will need to win their remaining five matches in the round-robin schedule to stand any chance of reaching the semifinals.
SPEEDSKATING: Christine Nesbitt earned Canada’s first speedskating gold, winning the 1,000 meters by two-hundredths of a second. Jennifer Rodriguez was the top American, finishing seventh.
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