Another race day in Soldeu, Andorra, and another chapter in what is turning into one of the tightest Super-G battles of the season. Sunday’s race—the second of two in the Pyrenees and a make-up for the cancelled Zauchensee Super-G—delivered plenty of excitement and ended with a statement win from Italy’s “Queen of Speed” Sofia Goggia.
But the day started with a déjà vu as Corinne Suter pushed out of the gate first in bib 1 and immediately set a daunting target. Her time of 1:26.55 looked untouchable through the early starters. Skiers 2 through 8 all failed to unseat the Swiss veteran, who is enjoying her strongest weekend in three seasons after years of battling injury. Even Saturday’s runner-up Alice Robinson from New Zealand could not match Suter, skiing a solid top section before losing crucial speed on the lower pitch.
Then the race heated up as Norway’s Kajsa Vickhoff Lie, wearing bib 9, delivered what she later called her “best skiing of the season.” The green light lit up from the first split, and unlike those before her, she carried it all the way down. Smooth, direct, and aggressive on the central pitch, Lie crossed the line to take the lead and finally secure her first Super-G podium of the season after finishing fifth and seventh earlier in the weekend. “I dreamt about it on my way here, I dreamt about it yesterday, I dreamt about it two days ago,” a beaming Lie said. “It’s amazing… I love it here.” Her lead, however, would not last long but was still enough for a podium—the Norwegian ultimately finished in third place.
Wearing bib 11, Sofia Goggia came roaring out of the gate with trademark aggression—after a sixth place in yesterday’s Super-G, she had unfinished business after all. Goggia found a cleaner, more direct line into the central pitch—a tactical adjustment from Saturday she said in a post-race interview—and it paid off. Goggia flew into the finish 0.31 seconds ahead of Lie, double fist-pumping and cheering in relief. “Really happy, the speed was there, I was really free in my mind and I was just thinking about what I had to do to perform my best,” Goggia said. “Today was really a similar race to yesterday but we decided to adopt a different strategy to get into the central pitch and it paid off, finally.”
There was still one major threat left in the start gate and that was Saturday’s dominant winner, Emma Aicher. Once again, the German showed blistering pace in the upper sections and was ahead of Goggia at the second split. But a pair of small errors in the demanding technical mid-section cost the 22-year-old just enough time. Despite a late charge to the line, she finished 0.24 seconds behind Goggia in second place. “I’m happy with the race even though I didn’t ski to the limit on the steep and made a small mistake,” Aicher said. “But it was OK for me.”
With the victory Goggia now firmly controls the Super-G standings. She leads with 420 points, 84 ahead of Robinson and 116 ahead of Aicher, with just two races remaining. “Now it’s important to stay really focused for the next ones in which we will play for everything,” Goggia said. Aicher is gracious about her odds of claiming the Super-G globe. “The Globe? Yeah, it’s always a possibility but I have to fight against Goggia who is in amazing shape right now, so we shall see.”
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Norway’s Lie held on for third, just ahead of Suter, who capped her comeback weekend with a fourth-place finish. After a win, a third, and now a fourth, the Swiss skier declared her “confidence back”—and it shows. Further down the order, strong runs from Laura Pirovano and Ester Ledecká pushed Robinson back to seventh.
For Team USA, it was a breakthrough day for Mary Bocock. Starting in bib 27, the 22-year-old delivered a career-best 11th-place finish—her fourth top-30 result of the season and a major step toward potential World Cup Finals qualification. Right behind her was Keely Cashman in 12th. Bella Wright (26th), Tricia Mangan (28th), Allison Mollin, and Breezy Johnson (equal 30th) also scored points, while Jacqui Wiles and Haley Cutler finished outside the top 30.
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With two Super-G races left on the calendar, the Super-G 2025-26 season crystal globe is not Goggia’s yet. With Val di Fassa next on the calendar and Lillehammer as the Finals venue, the last word has not yet been spoken. The women’s Super-G will be held in Kvitfjell, a race course Aicher knows well: she won her first podium and victory here. But while the battle for the Super-G Globe is far from settled, it is clear that Sofia Goggia is having a firm grasp on the globe and it would take a huge upset to snatch it from the Italian Queen of Speed’s hands.
Please note, the men’s Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was canceled due to fog.
