Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami bagged a second world championship gold

Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Feb 18 (AFP/APP): Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami bagged a second “unbelievable” world championship gold as she edged hot favourite Mikaela Shiffrin to the women’s giant slalom title in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Thursday. American Shiffrin had been fastest down the first leg, but Gut-Behrami turned on the afterburners on the second run to clock a winning combined time of 2min 30.66sec. It was a third medal in the Italian Dolomites for the 29-year-old Swiss racer after winning gold in the opening super-G and bronze in the downhill. Shiffrin claimed silver down the Olympia delle Tofane course, at just two-hundredths of a … Continue reading Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami bagged a second world championship gold