Harriet Harnden beat the reigning world champion and pocketed a $100,000 bonus at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Les Gets, France, a race where fans wave chainsaws and riders launch 30 feet through the air at 40 mph. Harnden, a British downhill racer, edged out reigning world champion Vali Holl to win the […] The post British riders steal the show at UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Les Gets appeared first on American Almanac .
Harriet Harnden beat the reigning world champion and pocketed a $100,000 bonus at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Les Gets, France, a race where fans wave chainsaws and riders launch 30 feet through the air at 40 mph. Harnden, a British downhill racer, edged out reigning world champion Vali Holl to win the women's elite race at the French Alpine ski resort this weekend. Jordan Williams, another Brit riding for Specialized, holds the lead in the men's elite overall standings after a season that started with a broken collarbone last winter. French favorite Max Alran won the men's elite race on home soil, sending the crowd into a frenzy that Williams, a three-time World Cup winner, called unlike anything he had experienced. The results…Open
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The team combined event pairs a downhill skier with a slalom skier. The top U.S. duo — the slalom star Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson, who won gold in the downhill on Sunday — is a medal favorite.
Vonn's Olympic dreams came to a heartbreaking close Sunday after she crashed during a women’s alpine skiing downhill race at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Milano Cortina. She had been racing with a torn ACL but she said it did not cause the crash.
The 41-year-old star said her torn ACL was not a factor in her crash. "While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets," she wrote.
A Sunday that began with Lindsey Vonn's screams of pain after crashing in the downhill ended with cheers of jubilation as Team USA edged out Japan for gold in team figure skating. The big picture: It truly was the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Driving the news: Vonn, 41, was trying to continue her comeback despite a ruptured ACL but crashed shortly into her run and had to be airlifted to a hospital, where she was later diagnosed with a broken leg. - While Vonn failed to finish, fellow American Breezy Johnson took the gold medal, becoming the first American to medal at this year's Winter Games. Lindsey Vonn crashes during her run in the women's downhill on Sunday.
