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Italian skier Brignone wins World Cup super-G with gutsy run

(AP) — Federica Brignone see it in every turn. Now I behind teammate Brignone of the season. ships, Cortina d’Ampezzo,
saw a gutsy run rewarded feel I am completely on the in 19th. for another downhill and
with the victory Sunday in right track again,” Suter said. The women’s World Cup re- super-G next weekend.
the fifth women’s World Goggia also has two super- turns to the Italian venue of
Cup super-G of the sea- Ariane Rädler was 0.17 be- G wins this season, and the last year’s world champion-
son. hind in third for the Aus- two Italians are clearly ahead
trian’s first career podium in the super-G season stand-
Racing in perfect, sunny result. ings, with Goggia leading
conditions, the Italian gained Brignone by just five points
about three-tenths of a sec- Brignone’s triumph came with four races left.
ond on her rivals with an at- one week after she sat out a
tacking and risky approach in giant slalom in Slovenia with “We have a strong speed
the middle part of the Käl- a knee issue. She worked team. We all come from the
berloch course. with physiotherapists to get giant slalom, so we make
ready for the speed races this good turns and super-G is a
While many racers posted weekend. good mix,” Brignone said.
faster times at the first split,
no one matched Brignone’s “My knee was not perfect. Olympic champion Ester
pace in the turning steep sec- But the best thing was that it Ledecka was six-tenths off
tion. was good when skiing. I had the lead in ninth, just ahead
almost no problem,” she said. of super-G world champion
“I was really attacking from Lara Gut-Behrami, a day af-
the top to the bottom,” said The result marked Brig- ter the Swiss standout had
the overall World Cup cham- none’s Italian record extend- won the downhill. Gut-Beh-
pion from two seasons ago. ing 18th career win, and sixth rami is the only super-G win-
in a super-G. It’s the first ner other than Brignone and
“Today was not easy to put all time Brignone has won mul- Goggia this season.
the pieces of the puzzle to- tiple super-G races in one
gether, because there’s some season. Defending overall champion
girls really fast in some sec- Petra Vlhova finished 18th
tions, but then making a “For me, it’s important. It’s and added 13 points to her
small mistake.” an emotion. I have won be- tally.
fore in my career but it’s al-
The top 20 finished within ways nice,” she said. The Slovakian trails leader
1.04 seconds of the winning Mikaela Shiffrin by 37 points
time. Italian teammate Sofia Gog- in the overall standings. The
gia, who had a nasty crash in American opted not to race
Corinne Suter came closest Saturday’s downhill on the this weekend and focus on
with a strong finish to close same slope, started despite training.
the gap to Brignone to 0.04 complaining about being
seconds. It was the best result sore. Shiffrin’s teammate Breezy
of the season for the down- Johnson also sat out the races
hill world champion from “My whole body hurts. But in Austria after hurting her
Switzerland. skiing is better than going for knee in a training crash. It
a walk,” she said before the left Keely Cashman as the
“My confidence has been race, in which she avoided best finisher on the U.S. ski
lacking until now, you could risk taking and finished 0.92 team in 23rd, her best result

Suspended game in Spain to resume without injured player

(AP) — The Copa del Rey was doing well at home but the stands while Betis was per Cup final between Real appalling attack.”
match suspended after an will not play when the match celebrating Nabil Fekir’s Madrid and Athletic Bilbao
object was thrown from between his club and Real equalizer before halftime in takes place in Saudi Arabia. Betis players condemned the
the stands will resume Betis restarts from the 39th the round-of-16 match be- Only one other Copa del incident but some accused
Sunday behind closed minute with the score tied at tween the fierce Seville rivals. Rey match was scheduled for Sevilla coach Julen Lopetegui
doors and without the Se- 1-1 at the Benito Villamarín Sunday, with Valencia visiting of trying to urge Jordán to go
villa player hit in the head Stadium. Jordán underwent a series of Atlético Baleares. down after being hit.
in what the club called an tests and was diagnosed with
“appalling attack.” Jordán had been taken to a a head trauma. He will re- Spanish media said the per- “Shameful and unjustifiable
hospital after being hit by a main under observation for son who threw the object act by someone who does
Sevilla midfielder Joan Jordán piece of PVC hurled from at least 24 hours, the Spanish from the stands was taken not represent our fans,” Betis
soccer federation said Sun- into custody by police. substitute Víctor Camarasa
day. said on Twitter. “I hope that
“Sevilla condemns the violent Joan Jordán is OK, but we
The federation said it wanted act suffered by Joan Jordán, all heard (even the assistant
to avoid major logistical chal- an unacceptable act in the referee) his coach tell him
lenges by keeping the match world of sport committed by to ‘be dizzy and drop to the
at the Villamarín stadium, an individual who, of course, ground.’”
but no fans will be allowed does not represent the fans of
“to guarantee the match ends Real Betis or the way of liv- The Seville derby is notori-
without new incidents, con- ing football in our city,” Se- ous for being Spain’s most
sidering the seriousness of villa said in a statement early fiercely contested crosstown
what happened.” Sunday. “Likewise, the club rivalry. In 2007, Sevilla coach
demands the utmost respect Juande Ramos was knocked
The match will restart 4 p.m. for Joan Jordán, a true pro- unconscious when he was
local time (1500 GMT), just fessional and an exemplary hit in the head by a bottle
hours before the Spanish Su- person who has suffered an thrown by a Betis fan.