Thompson wins at worlds

By Dan Falloon
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For all her success over the course of her 2018-19 season as the frontrunner for her fourth FIS Crystal Globe, ski-cross racer Marielle Thompson hadn’t won a World Cup race during the campaign. But she found a great time for her first best-on-best victory of the season, holding off Switzerland’s Fanny Smith and France’s Alizee Baron to win the FIS World Ski Championships race at Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah on Feb. 2.The win was also Thompson’s first-ever victory in her fifth trip to the World Championships; she had a previous best of second at Voss-Myrkdalen, Norway in 2013.…

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• Whistler News

February 4, 2019

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