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| - Federica Brignone halted Lara Gut-Behrami's winning streak on Sunday to take a women's World Cup super-G interrupted twice by heavy crashes. Brignone, an Italian, who won the overall title last year, took her first victory of the season in 1 minute 14.61 seconds in Val di Fassa. Gut-Behrami was 0.59s behind in second but that was good enough to ensure that, with one race left, she will win the small globe for the discipline. The Swiss skier had won downhills on Friday and Saturday to edge to the top of the overall standings and on Sunday increased her lead over Slovakian slalom specialist Petra Vlhova who was 32nd. Gut-Behrami's closest challenger in the super-G standings Corinne Suter, another Swiss skier, was third. The race was interrupted twice as first Norwegian Kajsa Vickhoff Lie and then Austrian Rosina Schneeberger crashed heavily. Both had to be lifted off the course by helicopter. Lie, starting 13th, lost her footing halfway through her run, spinning, falling and then sliding at speed into the safety nets where she was flipped over as she bumped downhill. In the absence of fans, screams were clearly audible. After a break of 20 minutes while the Norwegian was strapped into a stretcher and then carried away by helicopter, racing resumed. Schneeberger, skiing 21st, violently crashed into a gate at the top of the course. She was knocked off her feet and skidded gown the slope and into the nets. Again racing was interrupted as the emergency staff attended to the Austrian and a helicopter arrived to carry her away on a stretcher. When racing resumed again, Jasmine Flury of Switzerland was yellow flagged neutralising her run because of an accident on the slope involving one of the course workers. She had to return to the top of the slope to ski again. She recorded the 19th best time. rg/pb/nr
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