Whistler: American Lindsey Vonn will chase her third Olympic Alpine skiing medal on Friday with a modified glove to ease the pain of a fractured finger.
Vonn trained on Thursday for the slalom, the final race of the women’s programme, despite a giant slalom crash the day before that left her nursing the little finger on her right hand.
“Just got off the training hill,” the downhill gold medallist reported on her Facebook page. “SL (slalom) training was OK, I still feel pretty beat up after my crash in GS (giant) yesterday.
“I was able to modify one of my gloves and make a brace for my right hand. It seemed to work without too much pain, so I will try and race tomorrow in the SL.”
Vonn, who arrived in Vancouver with a shin injury, has crashed in two of her four races so far while winning medals in the other two.
She was third in the super-G and is not a favourite to win the slalom, although she was on the podium in the discipline in Levi, Finland, last November.
The American will be 10th out of the start hut in the first leg, with Sweden’s Anja Paerson 13th and Slovenia’s double silver medallist Tina Maze 14th.
Race director Atle Skaardal said the reserve start would be used, effectively lopping two or three gates off the course, to protect the piste for Saturday’s men’s race.
“The top of the hill is a little bit destroyed if we ski there tomorrow, it’s so vulnerable,” he said after a team captains’ meeting.
“The main problem tomorrow will be visibility and rain,” added the Norwegian, who said he had fretted all night that the weather would prevent the second leg of the giant slalom being held on Thursday.
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