Tarvisio: Back on the tour

With scarcely enough time to so much as take a breath after the World Championships, the women’s World Cup tour is back in action in Tarvisio, Italy, where world super-combined bronze medalist Elizabeth Goergl led the pack in downhill training Wednesday, followed by Anja Paerson and Tina Maze.

A world apart from the short, fast and turny women’s course on Rhone-Alpes at Val d’Isere, the Tarvisio course is long and more of what the speed racers are used to. Goergl’s fastest training time on Wednesday was 2 minutes, 3.10 seconds with Paerson .08 seconds back and Maze .44 back.

Stacey Cook was the fastest American, finishing seventh (2:04.00).

“It’s more like a real downhill – long with big, open turns,” said U.S. women’s head coach Jim Tracy. “It’s quite a bit different than the one we saw in Val d’Isere. It wasn’t super fast today, but once the speed picks up, it’ll have some action.”With scarcely enough time to so much as take a breath after the World Championships, the women’s World Cup tour is back in action in Tarvisio, Italy, where world super-combined bronze medalist Elizabeth Goergl led the pack in downhill training Wednesday, followed by Anja Paerson and Tina Maze.

A world apart from the short, fast and turny women’s course on Rhone-Alpes at Val d’Isere, the Tarvisio course is long and more of what the speed racers are used to. Goergl’s fastest training time on Wednesday was 2 minutes, 3.10 seconds with Paerson .08 seconds back and Maze .44 back.

Stacey Cook was the fastest American, finishing seventh (2:04.00).

“It’s more like a real downhill – long with big, open turns,” said U.S. women’s head coach Jim Tracy. “It’s quite a bit different than the one we saw in Val d’Isere. It wasn’t super fast today, but once the speed picks up, it’ll have some action.”

Lindsey Vonn was training wearing her special hand brace designed for speed events (she was given three different designs to suit her racing needs). While most of the women’s team has competed on the Tarvisio course before (two years ago), Vonn missed that race and is experiencing the hill for the first time.

Tracy said her injured thumb is fine and wasn’t worsened by her crash in the second run of the Worlds slalom race.

She finished 12th in Wednesday’s training and doesn’t appear to be troubled by rearranging her tuck around the brace and duct tape that’s helping her hold her pole.

“It’s ever so slightly awkward, but the more days she gets on it training and racing, she deals and adapts,” Tracy said. “First training runs don’t usually show how the race is going to go.”

After another downhill training run on Thursday, women’s racing begins on Friday with super-combined, followed by downhill on Saturday and a super G Sunday.

Watch all the races live at universalsports.com.

Downhill training Day 1 official results:

1	5	55576	GOERGL Elisabeth	1981	AUT	2:03.10
2	11	505483	PAERSON Anja	1981	SWE	2:03.18
3	15	565243	MAZE Tina	1983	SLO	2:03.54
4	26	515560	SCHILD Martina	1981	SUI	2:03.62
5	4	105997	BRYDON Emily	1980	CAN	2:03.75
6	35	295533	RECCHIA Lucia	1980	ITA	2:03.99
7	47	537582	COOK Stacey	1984	USA	2:04.00
8	19	295136	CECCARELLI Daniela	1975	ITA	2:04.11
9	6	296729	FANCHINI Nadia	1986	ITA	2:04.17
10	30	495318	RUIZ CASTILLO Carolina	1981	SPA	2:04.31
11	9	55069	GOETSCHL Renate	1975	AUT	2:04.48
12	10	537544	VONN Lindsey	1984	USA	2:04.53
13	20	515429	DUMERMUTH Monika	1977	SUI	2:04.55
14	8	515747	GISIN Dominique	1985	SUI	2:04.74
15	12	206001	RIESCH Maria	1984	GER	2:04.78
16	3	196460	MARCHAND-ARVIER Marie	1985	FRA	2:04.79
17	16	55750	FISCHBACHER Andrea	1985	AUT	2:04.81
18	51	55766	MADER Regina	1985	AUT	2:04.96
19	53	197006	GAUTHIER Marine	1990	FRA	2:05.10
20	43	505449	BENT Nike	1981	SWE	2:05.15
21	17	537545	MANCUSO Julia	1984	USA	2:05.30
22	36	515806	KAMER Nadja	1986	SUI	2:05.32
23	14	515170	STYGER Nadia	1978	SUI	2:05.35
24	49	55818	KOEHLE Stefanie	1986	AUT	2:05.38
24	24	296008	MERIGHETTI Daniela	1981	ITA	2:05.38
26	48	515244	CASANOVA Carmen	1980	SUI	2:05.41
27	45	538038	MARSHALL Chelsea	1986	USA	2:05.45
28	67	225206	ALCOTT Chemmy	1982	GBR	2:05.59
29	31	515766	SUTER Fabienne	1985	SUI	2:05.66
30	50	516052	KOEHN Anne-Sophie	1990	SUI	2:05.71
30	44	537626	RICHARDSON Kaylin	1984	USA	2:05.71
30	32	55759	KIRCHGASSER Michaela	1985	AUT	2:05.71
33	40	55970	SCHMIDHOFER Nicole	1989	AUT	2:05.72
33	37	106849	YURKIW Larisa	1988	CAN	2:05.72
35	57	296427	SCHNARF Johanna	1984	ITA	2:05.79
36	65	296242	GRUENER Angelika	1983	ITA	2:05.85
37	7	106022	JANYK Britt	1980	CAN	2:06.00
38	25	515573	AUFDENBLATTEN Fraenzi	1981	SUI	2:06.05
39	13	106402	VANDERBEEK Kelly	1983	CAN	2:06.28
40	54	537565	KELLEHER Keely	1984	USA	2:06.37
41	74	106410	DESFORGES Emilie	1983	CAN	2:06.41
41	33	55838	ZETTEL Kathrin	1986	AUT	2:06.41
43	18	195671	JACQUEMOD Ingrid	1978	FRA	2:06.42
44	61	55806	ALTACHER Margret	1986	AUT	2:06.47
45	75	297134	BORSOTTI Camilla	1988	ITA	2:06.55
46	73	515692	GRAND Rabea	1984	SUI	2:06.63
47	76	565315	ROBNIK Mateja	1987	SLO	2:06.70
48	72	296763	HOFER Larissa	1986	ITA	2:06.74
49	38	55539	BERGER Silvia	1980	AUT	2:06.87
50	21	206175	STECHERT Gina	1987	GER	2:06.95
51	29	55588	RUMPFHUBER Ingrid	1981	AUT	2:06.98
52	41	515849	DETTLING Andrea	1987	SUI	2:07.02
53	60	296438	TROJER Karoline	1984	ITA	2:07.29
54	39	465059	MIKLOS Edith	1988	ROU	2:07.32
55	64	565261	ROBNIK Petra	1984	SLO	2:07.36
56	46	196412	WEYRICH Clothilde	1985	FRA	2:07.37
57	42	55913	MOSER Stefanie	1988	AUT	2:07.40
58	23	195983	ROLLAND Marion	1982	FRA	2:07.43
59	63	297153	CIPRIANI Enrica	1988	ITA	2:07.49
60	77	505886	KLING Kajsa	1988	SWE	2:07.50
61	79	195972	AUBERT Sandrine	1982	FRA	2:07.55
62	28	296473	SIORPAES Wendy	1985	ITA	2:07.66
63	56	196968	BAILET Margot	1990	FRA	2:07.73
64	22	196573	REVILLET Aurelie	1986	FRA	2:07.78
65	70	296476	ALFIERI Camilla	1985	ITA	2:07.80
66	1	296431	STUFFER Verena	1984	ITA	2:07.95
67	82	538284	MCJAMES Megan	1987	USA	2:08.22
68	34	155415	ZAHROBSKA Sarka	1985	CZE	2:08.49
69	59	155563	KRIZOVA Klara	1989	CZE	2:09.08
70	80	515587	PUENCHERA Jessica	1982	SUI	2:09.13
71	62	206318	SCHMID Nicola	1990	GER	2:09.17
72	27	55947	FENNINGER Anna	1989	AUT	2:09.20
73	71	297171	FANCHINI Sabrina	1988	ITA	2:09.27
74	52	55882	STAUDINGER Christina	1987	AUT	2:09.45
75	68	55978	VOGLREITER Mariella	1989	AUT	2:09.64
76	58	55898	BREM Eva-Maria	1988	AUT	2:10.13
77	83	505679	HANSDOTTER Frida	1985	SWE	2:10.23
77	2	516138	GUT Lara	1991	SUI	2:10.23
79	66	206323	STIEPEL Isabelle	1990	GER	2:10.40
80	84	495615	MORLANS Leyre	1987	SPA	2:10.48
81	55	485563	PROSTEVA Elena	1990	RUS	2:11.17
82	85	485525	BOUREYEVA Vladislava	1989	RUS	2:12.63
83	81	485505	RAYANOVA Lyaysan	1989	RUS	2:12.91