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Norway’s Lie quickest in training for Lake Louise women’s World Cup downhills

Dec 5, 2019 | 5:33 PM

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — Norway’s Kajsa Vickhoff Lie was fastest in Thursday’s training run for the season-opening World Cup women’s downhills.

Lie posted a time of one minute 51.54 seconds in Lake Louise, Alta., ahead of Austrians Tamara Tippler in 1:51.69 and Nina Ortlieb 1:51.83.

The women race downhills Friday and Saturday followed by Sunday’s super-G.

Austria’s Nicole Schmidhofer won both downhills in 2018 en route to claiming the season’s World Cup title in the discipline. She was fourth in Thursday’s training.