After a racing hiatus of over a month, the Audi FIS Ski World Cup continued in North-America with a sunny ladies' technical weekend in Aspen, Colorado. (USA) Unlike Europe, North America has been blessed with natural snowfall and cold temperatures enabling snow-making, providing top-notch conditions for World Cup ski racing.
The ladies were again welcomed in the Colorado Rockies by beautiful clear skies and a race course in excellent condition. The reigning World Cup giant slalom champion Viktoria Rebensburg (GER) who narrowly missed out on victory in the season opener in Sölden won the race ahead of Austria's strongly skiing Lizz Görgl and Julia Mancuso (USA), who broke the US team's bad spell by seizing their first podium in six years and her first GS podium since 2007. In the season's first slalom on Sunday, the 2011 slalom queen Marlies Schild continued her winning ways taking the race and her 30th World Cup victory in dominating fashion.
The ladies' have now moved to Lake Louise for their Speed Opening.
