Jasmine Flury is surprise downhill champion at Alpine skiing worlds
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 11, 2023
Swiss Jasmine Flury‘s first top-level downhill victory came at the world championships, a stunning win from bib two, after which all of the favorites couldn’t match her in Meribel, France.
Flury, a 29-year-old with one World Cup super-G victory from December 2017, prevailed by four hundredths of a second over Austrian Nina Ortlieb, who like Flury earned her first world championships medal.
It was the second-closest women’s downhill in world championships history.
“It still feels like a dream,” Flury, who wiped . . .
