Dec 3, 2017; Lake Louise, Alberta, CAN; Lara Gut of Switzerland (left) and Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein (middle) and Nicole Schmidhofer of Austria (right) take the podium during the women's Super G race in the 2017 FIS alpine skiing World Cup at Lake Louise Ski Resort. Mandatory Credit: Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports
(Reuters) - Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather's won the season's first World Cup super-G race at Lake Louise on Sunday as American Lindsey Vonn, the all-time biggest winner in the discipline, failed to finish after crashing for her second time in three races.
The 28-year-old Weirather, who was last year's super-G crystal globe winner, barrelled down the icy course in one minute 18.52 seconds on a chilly day in the Canadian Rockies to wrap up the North American swing of the World Cup tour.
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