After winning a women’s World Cup super-G
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The 32-year-old Fanchini had to end her season because of a tumor, forcing her out of her fourth Olympics in Pyeongchang next month.
”She is always with us, she is missing. For sure, we are all upset. This (win) was for her,” said Brignone, adding she hoped her triumph ”can help Elena
to recover better.”
In the penultimate super-G before the Olympics, Brignone timed 1 minute, 9.80 seconds on the Karnten-Franz Klammer course and denied then-leader Lara Gut her
first win of the season, beating the Swiss former overall champion by 0.18.
Cornelia Huetter of Austria was 0.46 behind in third.
Nadia Fanchini, Elena’s younger sister, trailed Brignone by 0.98 in fifth for her best result of the season.
Lindsey Vonn finished 1.43 off the lead in ninth place
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course. However, snow conditions vastly improved after a cold night.
”As soon as I saw the course at inspection this morning, I knew I was going to run,” said Vonn, adding she was satisfied with the conditions after ”the snow
was sugar” in previous days.
”For me that is a dangerous situation because I don’t have any stability then on my knee,” Vonn said. ”If it’s bumpy it’s not a problem. As long as the
surface is holding and solid, it’s fine.”
Vonn badly injured her right knee skiing in soft snow at the 2013 world championships in Austria, and ultimately missed the Sochi Olympics the following
year.
Wearing bib No. 2, Vonn briefly led Saturday’s race but knew she was not in contention for her 79th career victory.
”On the bottom I wasn’t as aggressive I should have been. I was a little bit too conservative,” she said. ”It’s kind of funny because I skied the harder
sections better and then the easier sections worse.”
Vonn didn’t match Brignone’s skiing, who found the right line to master some tricky turns in the course.
”It’s really bumpy
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It was the Italian’s seventh career win, and second of the season after triumphing in a giant slalom in Lienz, Austria, last month.
Brignone became the fifth different winner of five super-G races this season.
Still aiming for her first win after coming back from knee surgery, Gut used a strong run to take an early lead in the race.
Brignone trailed by 0.08 at the last split time but made up two-tenths on the Swiss to grab the win.
”To me it’s important to show in races what I can do,” Gut said. ”I was determined to start January well and I have done that.”
Hungarian skier Edit Miklos crashed when her skis crossed shortly before finishing, and was brought to hospital with ”a possibly severe knee injury,”
according to her coach Stefan Abplanalp.
A year ago, Miklos was airlifted off the hill with a right-knee injury after crashing in a downhill training run at another Austrian resort, Zauchensee.
The race was rescheduled from Sunday after organizers swapped it with the downhill. The mandatory downhill training run will be held Sunday
morning
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Amnesty International gave former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of
Conscience Award on Saturday for his kneeling protest of racial injustice that
launched a sports movement and might have cost him his job.
Onetime San Francisco 49ers teammate Eric Reid presented Kaepernick with the award during a ceremony in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.
In his acceptance speech, the award-winner described police killings of African Americans and Latinos in the United States as lawful lynchings.
"Racialized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation ??the effects of which can be seen in the lawful lynching of black
and brown people by the police, and the mass incarceration of black and brown
lives in the prison industrial complex," Kaepernick said.
Kaepernick first took a knee during the pre-game playing of the American national anthem when he was with the 49ers in 2016 to protest police
brutality.
"How can you stand for the national anthem of a nation that preaches and propagates, 'freedom and justice for all,' that is so unjust to so many of the
people living there?" he said at Saturday's award ceremony.
Other players joined his protest in the 2016 season, drawing the ire of President Donald Trump, who called for team owners to fire such players.
In response to the player demonstrations, the NFL agreed to commit $90 million over the next seven years to social justice causes in a plan.
Kaepernick wasn't signed for the 2017 season following his release in San Francisco.
Reid, a safety who is now a free agent
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approach in 2018.
Kaepernick paid tribute to his friend for his own role in the protest movement.
"Eric introducing me for this prestigious award brings me great joy," Kaepernick said. "But I am also pained by the fact that his taking a knee, and
demonstrating courage to protect the rights of black and brown people in
America, has also led to his ostracization from the NFL when he is widely
recognized as one of the best competitors in the game and in the prime of his
career."
Amnesty hands its award each year to a person or organization, "dedicated to fighting injustice and using their talents to inspire others."
Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty called Kaepernick "an athlete who is now widely recognized for his activism because of his refusal to
ignore or accept racial discrimination."
Previous recipients of the award include anti-Apartheid campaigner and South African President Nelson Mandela and Malala?Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl
who campaigned for girls' right to education even after surviving being shot by
Taliban militants.
"In truth, this is an award that I share with all of the countless people throughout the world combating the human rights violations of police officers,
and their uses of oppressive and excessive force," Kaepernick said.
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