The American superstar also won Friday’s downhill. On Saturday, she finished in 1 minute, 51.35 seconds to beat Marie Marchand-Arvier of France and Elisabeth Goergl of Austria.

Vonn is considered the woman to beat in the super-G scheduled for Sunday.

“In another world,” reigning overall World Cup champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch said of Vonn. “There’s definitely nobody that can keep up with her at the moment in the downhills.”

“She’s in her own league right now,” added world downhill champion Elisabeth Goergl of Austria, who finished third on Saturday.

The last woman to sweep three races at Lake Louise was Katja Seizinger of Germany in 1997.

“A sweep is very difficult to do,” Vonn said. “I have to see what the course is like, but the snow conditions are fantastic. I just have to try to go out and do the same thing I did yesterday and today, which is ski aggressively, execute the line and try not to make any mistakes.”

Vonn increased her career victory total at Lake Louise to 10. The Olympic champion has more World Cup victories at this mountain resort west of Calgary than anywhere else.

“To come in here at Lake Louise and have back-to-back wins was great for my self-confidence,” Vonn said. “I hope I can keep the momentum going tomorrow and throughout the rest of the season.”

Laurenne Ross of the US crashed hard and was taken to hospital with facial lacerations.
 

In Beaver Creek, Colorado, Sandro Viletta of Switzerland captured his first World Cup win on Saturday in a super-G, while Bode Miller’s risk-taking came back to hurt him.

Starting way back at 30th and with snow falling, Viletta soared down Birds of Prey course in 1 minute, 18.71 seconds to overtake Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway by 0.20 seconds. Beat Feuz of Switzerland took third.

Before Saturday, Viletta’s best World Cup finish was fourth in a giant slalom nearly three years ago in Adelboden, Switzerland.

With the weather and the course precisely to his liking, Viletta stood in the starting gate and convinced himself to let loose.

“I risked all at the top,” Viletta said. “I just pushed as much I can.”

Viletta emulated the aggressive style that served Miller so well the day before when the American won the downhill. Miller took massive risks on that run, and was highly rewarded.

This time, not so much.

Miller’s hard-charging style led to an early mistake and he needed an acrobatic recovery just to stay on the course. He finished 21st, which was 1.40 seconds behind Viletta.

Afterward, Miller said he had the right line. And if he could’ve executed it properly, he might have been on the podium. That’s how well he was skiing.

With Miller, it’s either feast or famine. There’s rarely anything in between.

“You’ve got to take a risk or you don’t have a good chance,” Miller told The Associated Press as he made his way through the crowd and on down the hill after the race. “I was skiing well, but once you make that mistake there, it’s over.

“I pushed everywhere, just one (bad) turn.”

For Feuz, the beat goes on at Birds of Prey as he worked his way onto the podium for a second straight day. He was second in the downhill on Friday.

“The snow really seems to suit us Swiss,” Feuz said through a translator.

The fact the Swiss had two skiers on the podium hardly came as a surprise. But that one wasn’t named Didier Cuche was a little startling. Cuche entered the race as one of the favorites, but he wound up ninth for a second straight day.

Still, Cuche was quite pleased for his proteges.

After all, they help keep the 37-year-old Cuche young and skiing fast.

“The guys are pushing harder now,” Cuche said. “It’s good for the team.”

Just when Svindal was starting to think he had a win sewn up, along came Viletta’s run.

Although Svindal didn’t ski great at the top, no one really had. Austria’s Georg Streitberger, the defending champion at this event, skied off early, as did Ted Ligety.