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Lindsey Vonn Crashes

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Teammate Julia Mancuso wins slalom silver.

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Lindsey Vonn won’t be winning five Olympic medals: Her hopes to do so were dashed Thursday after she fell in the slalom portion of the Super-Combined. She was leading after the downhill portion, but fell behind to the eventual winner, Germany’s Maria Riesch, in the slalom portion. Vonn’s ski snagged a slalom pole, causing her to crash and not finish. Her American teammate Julia Mancuso won the silver.

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