Kildow's injury hands Goetschl SG title

By Published On: February 23rd, 2007Comments Off on Kildow's injury hands Goetschl SG title

SIERRA NEVADA, Spain — Renate Goetschl clinched the women's World Cup super G title when Lindsey Kildow decided to end her season early because of a knee injury. The Austrian skier learned Friday that she had won her third super-G championship. Kildow's withdrawal from the rest of the season was announced late Thursday by the U.S. team.


SIERRA NEVADA, Spain — Renate Goetschl clinched the women's World Cup super G title when Lindsey Kildow decided to end her season early because of a knee injury.
    The Austrian skier learned Friday that she had won her third super G championship. Kildow's withdrawal from the rest of the season was announced late Thursday by the U.S. team.
    Goetschl has also won four downhill crowns and took the overall title in 2000.
    ''It's not time to celebrate,'' Austrian women's head coach Herbert Mandl said. ''She's very focused to finish the season now. She's also going for the overall and downhill titles.''
    Giant slalom and slalom races are scheduled for Sierra Nevada this weekend, but Mandl said Goetschl would only enter the GS.
    Goetschl has 440 points in the super G standings. Kildow has 310 and Nicole Hosp of Austria is third with 227. Wins are worth 100 points each and Goetschl has an insurmountable 213-point lead on Hosp.   
    There are only two super G's remaining this season — one in Tarvisio, Italy, on March 4 and the other at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, on March 15.
    Goetschl will have to wait until the finals to receive the small crystal globe that goes with the title.
    Kildow decided to end her season after partially tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee at last week's world championships in Are, Sweden.
    Goetschl has won three of the five super G's this season, and finished second and third in the other two. Goetschl also leads the downhill and overall standings.
    ''She's in the game. She has four speed events left,'' Mandl said of Goetschl's overall chances.
    Austrian teammates Marlies Schild and Hosp, who are second and fourth in the overall standings, will compete in both races this weekend.

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