SportNews ski cannon: Adjö Åre - Ciao Cortina

The main actors: With Axel Lund Svindal (NOR) and Lindsey Vonn (USA), two great athletes ended their careers in a very dignified manner. Svindal missed his sixth World Championship gold by just two hundredths of a second, but for the 36-year-old Norwegian his career could hardly have ended more beautifully with downhill silver behind compatriot Kjetil Jansrud. Record woman Lindsey Vonn also achieved a similar happy ending. After a bad fall in the Super-G, the American won her eighth World Championship medal with bronze in the downhill and, like Svindal, Marc Girardelli and Kjetil Andre Aamodt, has now won at least one precious metal at six different World Championships.

The Vikings say goodbye to their chief

Petra Vlhova: With gold in the giant slalom, 23-year-old Vlhova secured the first World Cup gold in the history of Slovakia after silver in the combination. In the slalom she followed up with bronze, completing the set of medals.

Mikaela Shiffrin: With two individual gold medals in Super-G and Slalom, as well as giant slalom bronze, she is the most successful athlete at the Aare World Championships. With four gold medals in slalom, the 23-year-old put herself in a league of her own; no one has ever managed to win four times in a row in one discipline.

Dominic Paris: The man from Ultimo raced to the gold medal in the Super-G right at the start of the World Championships - on the same slope and on the day exactly 12 years after Patrick Staudacher's gold medal in the Super-G at the 2007 World Championships.

On the way to the gold medal: Dominik Paris

The best sayings of the World Cup: “I thought to myself, why am I on the internet again? I’m too old for this shit.” Lindsey Vonn after her fall in the Super-G.

“Now I’m the eldest who alone controls the little kids on the team.” Kjetil Jansrud realizes that he is Norway's team oldest after Svindal's departure.

“You don’t need any special genes, you just have to get up in the morning and train.” Ski legend Kjetil Andre Aamodt has a simple recipe for success in alpine skiing.

“I’m actually a bit pissed off that I didn’t get the fifth swing right, that annoys me a bit.” Henrik kristoffersen still finds a fly in the ointment after his gold run.

“I can understand that the others are getting tired. Shit, they have really long days.” Slalom silver medalist Anna Swenn-Larsson, who doesn't have as much practice with interviews and press conferences as other runners.

Swenn-Larsson with king and queen © APA / EXPA/DOMINIK ANGERER

The flops of the World Cup: Verbal derailment from Gian Franco Kasper: An interview by the FIS President with the “Tages-Anzeiger” about hosting major events caused a great deal of excitement in the run-up to the World Cup: “It’s just the case that things are easier for us in dictatorships. From a business perspective, I say: I only want to go to dictatorships, I don’t want to argue with environmentalists,” said Kasper. Dictatorships could “carry out such events with the left, they don’t have to consult the people.” Kasper later apologized for the “not literal” statements.

Weather around the Aareskutan: storm, fog, snowfall, rain, cancellations, postponements and significantly shortened routes. Almost no competition, especially in the speed disciplines (except men's Super G), can be held from the original planned start due to the difficult weather conditions in Aare. The women's downhill was probably the worst affected, with a winning time of just 1:01,74 minutes for winner Ilka Stuhec (SLO). All four runs (special and combination) have been shortened. It also affected the women's giant slalom.

ÖSV Speed Women: Coming to Aare with a flood of success of six wins and twelve podium places in downhill and super-G, the ÖSV women were perhaps the biggest disappointment from the ÖSV perspective in the fast disciplines. For the first time since 2013, the red-white-red speed women remained without a World Cup medal.

Handover of the FIS flag to Cortina

Ciao Cortina: After the World Cup is before the World Cup, this old footballer adage also applies to skiers. Super-G vice world champion Sofia Goggia & Co. will be chasing medals in Cortina in two years.

_____________________ The SportNews -Skikanone accompanies you as a regular column through the 2018/19 World Cup winter.

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SportNews ski cannon: Adjö Åre - Ciao Cortina

The 2019 Alpine Ski World Championships in Åre is history, and history has been written. There was gold and bronze for South Tyrol, and two true skiing greats, Aksel Lund Svindal and Lindsey Vonn, gave their farewell performance.

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