Emma Aicher (GER) cruised to victory in Tarvisio, Italy, collecting the second win of her strongest World Cup season to date with a time of 1:14.04.

The multi-discipline dynamo is the only woman to earn a podium in three different events during the 2025-26 campaign: the super-G, downhill and slalom. She’s likely to compete in all for Germany at the Milan Cortina Games in February.

Lindsey Vonn (USA) is a St. Paul, Minnesota native, but her current residence is on the podium. Or at least, that’s where she can be found after pretty much every race. 

The 41-year-old finished as Sunday’s runner-up (+0.27), and has now reached the podium in seven out of her eight races this season, eight out of nine dating back to last year. That’s an 89% podium rate. For context, Mikaela Shiffrin (USA), the all-time leader in World Cup victories who’s claimed that she’s in the midst of her best slalom skiing, is at a 50% clip.

PR (podium rate) isn’t an officially kept Alpine stat, but Vonn is so on top of her game that she’s forcing it into existence. The Princess of the Piste may very well be throwing down the highest level of skiing of her legendary 20-plus year career.

Think about it this way: She’s put together streaks of three consecutive Cup wins six times and won four straight on two of those occasions (2011-12, 2015-16), but never before had she made the podium in eight out of nine races. 

Vonn is a marvel, an outlier, an athlete who rewrites the history books, and then crumples up the pages the following week to rewrite them again. Heading into Milan Cortina, she’s unequivocally a medal favorite — in at least one event. 

With the Travisio result, she moved into second in Cup points in the super-G discipline, just 10 behind the leader Sofia Goggia (ITA). Vonn holds the red bib in the downhill.

Dual-sport athlete Ester Ledecka (CZE) claimed third place (+0.94), which was her inaugural podium of the Alpine season. At the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, Ledecka became the first athlete, man or woman, to win a gold medal in Alpine skiing (super-G) and snowboarding (parallel giant slalom) at the same Olympics.

Ledecka will have the opportunity to repeat the achievement in Milan Cortina, however, she won’t be able to compete in the downhill event — held at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina — because the scheduling conflicts with the parallel giant slalom, which goes down in Livigno on the same day at the same time. 

Speaking of the Games, Keely Cashman (USA) made a forceful final case at an Olympic bid, placing fifth in Travisio (+1.11). The 26-year-old chose the perfect time to record the best result of her career as the Olympic qualification period ends tonight. 

U.S. Ski & Snowboard lists a top-five finish as the second most important criteria when selecting athletes to join Team USA, so Cashman may have just cashed in on a roster spot. 11th and 14th place finishes in her previous super-G races also helps her cause.

"I feel like I’ve been building a lot this year and skiing well in super-G which has given me confidence," Cashman said post race. "Lindsey gave me a great report and my coaches and I had a really good plan so I did my best to execute the best I could. My dad has been traveling with me this season and it’s really been a game-changer mentally on race day to have his support. I’m super happy with this result building into the Olympics."

As a whole, the American speed team performed well, yet again, with four racers reaching the top 20 and six the top 30. 

Jackie Wiles (USA), a day after finishing 13th and a little over a week after snagging 3rd, came in 19th. Allison Mollin (USA) placed 20th, Breezy Johnson (USA) 25th and Haley Cutler (USA) 27th.

The super-G points leader heading into Travisio, Alice Robinson (NZL), took a hard tumble just meters before the finish line, but skied off on her own power. The Kiwi landed the last jump a bit awkwardly and struggled to carve around the final gate, which ultimately led to the crash. 

Still, she managed to complete the run (albeit, in unconventional, unplanned fashion) as she tumbled through the line. It was an unlucky result, or perhaps a lucky one, depending on how you look at it. Either way, Robinson fell to 36th, thus gaining no Cup points, and fell back in the super-G standings to third.

Catch the women’s super-G at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 5:30 a.m. ET. The action streams live on Peacock and NBCOlympics.com.