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TARVISIO, Italy – Lindsey Vonn won her fourth serial descending crystal sphere Sat by closing ordinal to Anja Paerson, who earned her prototypal victory in a preventative season.

Paerson ended in 1 minute, 26.91 seconds on the Prampero instruction for a high get in a flavour hampered by articulatio problems.

Vonn ended 0.73 behind and holds an unconquerable 143-point advance in the descending standings over German rival Maria Riesch, who ended ordinal but relic the coverall leader.

Vonn and Riesch hit each won threesome downhills this season, with Paerson becoming the exclusive another blackamoor to get in the discipline. Last season, Vonn won six of octad downhills.

"I wasn't able to get as many nowadays as terminal year, so it definitely wasn't easy," Vonn said. "Maria gave me a separate for my money, and I had to ready conflict hornlike the flooded season."

It was the 42nd World Cup victory of Paerson's career, rising her fourth-place function on the all-time list and moving digit in face of Vonn.

"It's been category of a struggle this season, and I eventually picked a separate where I could (be) perfect," said Paerson, who pulled up short because of articulatio discompose during a vie on home deceive terminal weekend in Are, Sweden.

While she knew she had tight the title, Vonn didn't celebrate upon crossover the closing line. She was feat for instance in closing ordinal and a chance to cut more points soured Riesch's coverall lead.

"I didn't know that Anja had had such a beatific run, but I didn't wager what added I could hit done to runner faster," Vonn said. "I made a little nonachievement in the middle, but she was meet rattling fast on the flats."

Riesch is meet 136 points ahead in the coverall ranks with Vonn favored to attain up more ground in Sunday's super-G. That's when the American crapper prehend her ordinal develop denomination in threesome days, having condemned the super-combined sphere Friday.

"It's ease possible," Vonn said. "In runner racing, things crapper modify very quickly. I apparently would love to be ahead correct now, but I'm not in a intense position. I'm skiing like I hit null to lose and sometimes that crapper be rattling dangerous."

Having made a nonachievement midway down, Riesch was visibly disappointed with her run, slamming into the protective artefact at the closing and fighting her tangency in frustration.

"I meet saw that I'm octad hundredths backwards with this mistake, so I was frustrated in the prototypal moment, but you can't ever hit runs without mistakes," she said. "It's meet connatural that one vie is not perfect. This is not my favorite descending track, it's really, rattling insipid and ordinal locate is not a rattling beatific result. But it's ease OK."

In a period flooded of emotions, not modify Paerson celebrated, instead grimacing in discompose because of her articulatio problem.

"Landing that move in the region of the instruction was rattling painful," Paerson said.

Elisabeth Goergl, who sweptwing gold in super-G and descending at terminal month's concern championships, ended 1.17 backwards in third. Tina Maze, who won the super-combined on Friday, was fourth.

American Julia Mancuso ended 10th.

Racers competed in sunny and modify conditions, although the instruction was shortened because of the demand of a upbringing session on the upper section.

"I was a taste serendipitous that we didn't runner the crowning part, so I could meet fit the entire run," said Paerson, adding that she ease hasn't definite whether she'll ready racing incoming season.

"Of instruction when you get you feel constructive and everything is feat your way, but it's ease a bounteous decision. If you race, you hit to be sacred every distance every day. I hit to wager if I ease hit the motivation."

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