Skiing: Riesch picks right time to return to form

MARIA Riesch put an end to Lindsey Vonn's unbeaten run in downhills this season with victory in St Moritz, two weeks ahead of the Winter Olympics.

The German slalom world champion had not won a downhill for more than three years but her third victory in the discipline, in one minute 41.31 seconds, came at just the right time, with the Vancouver Games on the horizon, despite Vonn's clean sweep of the first five downhills of the winter, which had given the American the edge in the World Cup standings.

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