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LENZERHEIDE, Schweiz – Maria Riesch regained the advance in the coverall World Cup denomination motion Friday, finishing fourth in a slalom vie won by Tina Maze of Slovenia.

Riesch attained 50 points and has a three-point advance over Lindsey Vonn. The three-time defending champion, Vonn had led by 27 but ended 13th in the test slalom of the flavour to reason 20 points.

The denomination module be definite in a colossus slalom vie on Saturday.

Maze won in a combined two-run instance of 1 minute, 29.33 seconds. World Cup slalom champion Marlies Schild of Oesterreich was second, 0.05 seconds behind, and Veronika Zuzulova of Slovakia was third.

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LENZERHEIDE, Schweiz (AP) — Maria Riesch fought backwards in her battle for the coverall World Cup denomination with Lindsey Vonn, placing ordinal in the prototypal separate of the season's test slalom on Friday.

Riesch trailed leader Marlies Schild of Oesterreich by 0.49 seconds. Vonn was equal for 14th, with 1.26 to make up on her Teutonic competition in the ordinal run.

Vonn started the period 27 points aweigh of Riesch, who would collect 80 points by retentive ordinal place. Vonn is on road to reason 18.

"I had a solidified and steady slalom separate for the prototypal instance in a daylong time," said Riesch, the Olympic slalom champion who astonishingly crashed discover last weekend in the Czech Republic.

Riesch also seemed to be letting push get to her weekday when her cagy downhill separate let Vonn verify the coverall advance for the prototypal instance in threesome months.

"I think I am overconfident sufficiency now to appendage it," Riesch said. "I was meet a little taste more easy and not too tense. I don't undergo why.

"I meet wish everything works for me," she said of her ordinal run.

Vonn live discover of the move house, but had to shut on the brakes to make a invoke 10 seconds in and forfeited momentum. She threw her arms discover panoramic in interference after crossing the closing line.

Schild, who is hunt her seventh World Cup slalom get this season, ended in 43.38 seconds on the rain-softened instruction on a foggy day. Tina Maze of Slovenija was third, chase Schild by 0.70.

The test scheduled women's vie is a colossus slalom on Saturday.

The men's colossus slalom was canceled weekday to protect the Silvano Beltrametti course, allowing Ted Ligety of the United States to claim his third World Cup GS denomination in quaternary years.

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