Overview
- Austria’s ski federation confirmed Magdalena Egger tore her ACL and collateral ligament with a bruised lateral meniscus in the Zauchensee downhill crash, ending her season and Olympic hopes.
- Lindsey Vonn won the weather-shortened Zauchensee downhill for her second victory of the winter, with Germany’s Emma Aicher sixth and Kira Weidle-Winkelmann 12th.
- Germany’s duo Karl Geiger and Pius Paschke finished a distant sixth in Zakopane’s Super-Team event as Austria won, with top Germans Philipp Raimund and Felix Hoffmann absent due to illness and knee rest.
- Former jumper Gerd Siegmund sharply criticized the state of German ski jumping, warning of structural problems with talent, coaching and facilities as results lag.
- In wind-disrupted Nordic combined in Otepää that relied on a provisional round, Johannes Rydzek was edged by 0.5 seconds by Norway’s Einar Luraas Oftebro, while Julian Schmid fell late and placed fifth.