The 30-year-old Ledecká again showed an aggressive drive with starting number six, her speed was among the highest on the measured sections. Even thanks to this, especially after the jumps, she got out of the ideal track and took another loss in the middle part. In the end, she was almost a second and a half short of the winner.
Lindsey Vonn impressed with her performance on Friday, going down the lower part of the track a class better than all of her rivals. She claimed her first triumph in eight years by almost a second and became the reigning oldest winner in the World Cup.
With advice from the Norwegian ace Aksel Lund Svindal, she showed an excellent ride even in her 410th start in the World Cup and confirmed once again that she was definitely not exaggerating with the words about life form after forty.
At the finish line, she was consistently the fastest with the eleventh place and showed how happy she was again. But she didn’t warm up for a long time in the chair for the leading competitor, Emma Aicherová followed her.
The German born in Sweden was already in great form at the end of last season and proves that she is an excellent all-rounder. In Levi, Finland, she finished third in the slalom, and now she even made it to the top level in the downhill, when she was 24 hundredths faster than Vonnová, who is 19 years her senior.
Barbora Nováková, the second Czech representative, started with number 53, who is making her debut in the World Cup in St. Moritz. After Friday’s 47th place, she fell one place.
The program in St. Morice will be closed by Sunday’s super-G, which starts at 10.45.
