Sports Writing, 11 Feb. The Swiss Jasmine Flury played this Saturday the big surprise of the Alpine Skiing World Championships in Courchevel and Méribel (France) by winning the queen event, the downhill, in which the theoretical big favorite, the Italian Sofia Goggia, jumped a gate and was disqualified.
Flury, 29 and who has won just one World Cup victory, celebrated the most important triumph of his sporting career by covering the 2,413 meters of the Roc de Fer track in Méribel – start at 2 150 vertical meters and a vertical drop of 685 – in a winning time of one minute, 28 seconds and three hundredths, four less than the Austrian Nina Ortlieb, who won the silver medal.
Another Swiss, Corinne Suter, Olympic champion in the discipline and who two years ago won gold in downhill at the World Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy), finished third, twelve hundredths behind Flury; and won bronze. ECE
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