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Lindsey Vonn crashes in women’s giant slalom

By Chris Dufresne
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American Lindsey Vonn crashed in her first run of the morning giant slalom and slammed hard into a retaining net but appeared to have avoided serious injury.

Vonn, who has won two medals in the Olympics, was not a favorite in the GS. It is the only World Cup event she has never won. Vonn, in fact, has never finished in the top three.

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Vonn was skiing from the No. 17 start position. Julia Mancuso, the defending Olympic champion in GS, drew the No. 18 bib and was held up on the course after Vonn crashed in snowy and foggy conditions.

“The course is breaking up at the bottom. I got a little bit too inside and lost my outside ski,’ Vonn said. ‘My knee came up and hit my chin. I got all tangled up and hit the fence. I hurt my finger (pinkie) and need to get it x-rayed.”

-- Chris Dufresne, from Whistler

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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