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LENZERHEIDE, Schweiz – The combat between Lindsey Vonn and Maria Riesch for the women's World Cup coverall denomination was place on stop weekday when racing was canceled by poor weather.

Under International Ski Federation rules, the regular super-G races for women and men can't be held in the tight finals week program.

Vonn, who won quaternary of sextet super-G races this season, had hoped to physique on the 27-point advance she took Wednesday. The American auto was ordinal in the descending as Germany's Riesch settled out of the points in 17th.

"It's definitely disappointing. In the fisticuffs for the overall, every point counts and super-G is one of my strongest events," said Vonn, who designed to meet soured her runner Thursday. "I module belike do some therapy and workouts and meet try to intend as much rest as I crapper for the terminal two races."

Friday's races — a women's slalom and men's colossus slalom — are already in doubt with more rain, dewy deceive and poor saliency forecast.

"It's feat to be very, rattling challenging," women's vie administrator Atle Skaardal told The Associated Press. "The defy module meet same this until weekday farewell and that makes it extremely arduous to even encounter a plan."

A boost cancellation would leave prizewinning friends and rivals Vonn and Riesch with meet a colossus slalom on Saturday, worth 100 points to the winner, to end the title.

The vie construction in Lenzerheide was shrouded in clouds weekday and the day's information was scrapped before 8 a.m. topical time.

"It is something between deceive on the crowning and fall at the bottom, which makes (the course) dewy and sticky," Skaardal said in a ring interview. "You wouldn't have any saliency and it's creating impossible deceive conditions on the hill."

Skaardal said country was also compromised because support poles for the course-side nets could not stop in the fleecy snow.

Vonn already had stamped her ordinal straightforward super-G develop denomination and module receive her stone globe accolade on Friday.

The men's super-G denomination module be awarded to Didier Cuche of Schweiz for the first time, adding to the ordinal descending denomination he won Wednesday.

Ted Ligety of the United States also could goodness from more intense weather. The new world champion in colossus slalom also leads the World Cup standings and module verify a ordinal stone globe in quaternary eld if Friday's vie is canceled.

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