Canadian Emily Brydon came agonizingly close to winning Sunday's women's World Cup super-G race in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Instead, she had to settle for second place.
Canada's Emily Brydon speeds down the slope on her way to taking second place in Sunday's women's super-G race in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
(Marco Trovati/Associated Press)
Brydon, from Fernie, B.C., posted a time of one minute, 15.10 seconds on the Corviglia course to finish a mere 0.04 behind winner Anja Paerson of Sweden.
"This sport's really funny, the hard times are really hard but you just need one little result like today to forget them for a little while," the 27-year-old Brydon said. "So today was really important for me and it's definitely given me a little more fire to keep going."
The second-place finish was Brydon's best career result. She previously posted four third-place finishes in the last seven years.
"I was kind of sick of getting third, so I'm excited I'm heading toward the top," she said.
The Canadian said she's focusing now on winning her first gold medal.
"Hopefully we keep building, that's the plan," Brydon explained. "Ski-racing's always an interesting sport, there's a little bit of luck involved, I'm still going to shoot for the gold medal eventually.
"Whether it happens the next race or later this season, next year, every time to the start gate I'm going for a win and I just have to keep building from this result and put in some solid, consistent results this year."
Austrian Renate Goetschl finished third Sunday, 0.22 off the pace of Paerson, for her third podium finish of the World Cup season.
Britt Janyk, of Whistler, B.C., posted a time of 1:15.57, finishing tied for 10th place with American Julia Mancuso.
Kelly Vanderbeek of Kitchener, Ont., was 32nd while Montreal's Emilie Desforges finished 33rd. Larisa Yurkiw of Owen Sound, Ont., did not finish.
Paerson, the reigning Olympic slalom champion, won Saturday's downhill race in St. Moritz when she edged American Lindsey Vonn by 0.08 to post her first win of the season and her first in downhill since March 2006
"It's just amazing.… Yesterday, I was just thinking about getting across the finish line because this is such a tough super-G course," Paerson said. "I maybe made a couple of mistakes but I kept everything under control right to the end."
Paerson's 37th career World Cup victory moved her past Germany's Katja Seizinger for fourth place on the all-time wins list. Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell leads with 62. Switzerland's Vreni Schneider is second with 55, while Goetschl is fourth with 46.
Paerson's last back-to-back World Cup victories were at San Sicario, Italy, in February 2005 when she first won a super-G before winning her first career downhill race.
With Sunday's result, Paerson overtook Austrian Marlies Schild to lead the overall World Cup standings. Paerson has 383 points, with Nicole Hosp of Austria climbing into second with 379. Schild is third with 354.
Paerson also leads the super-G rankings with 136 points after two races. Switzerland's Martina Schild is second on 129, while Maria Riesch of Germany is third with 125.
This weekend's races were moved to St. Moritz from Val d'Isere because of a lack of snow at the French resort.
With files from Canadian Press and Associated PressRelated
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