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Now she says she will be satisfied just to race, no matter the results.
Her Team USA teammate Breezy Johnson had the fastest time in Saturday's training and could contend for a medal as well.
Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
On Saturday, Vonn completed the second of her two official training runs.
This one was even faster than Friday's.
Neither run was perfect, but her coach Axel Lundsvendal said afterward he felt she showed a clear improvement, especially...
in landing the big jumps on the course at the Tofani Ski Hill.
All of this, of course, is in spite of the ACL tear she suffered in her left knee just over a week ago.
Now she awaits Sunday's race.
Vaughn might have been a favorite before her injury.
This season, she had won two World Cup downhill races and reached the podium and three others.
Now she says she will be satisfied just to race, no matter the results.
Her Team USA teammate Breezy Johnson had the fastest time in Saturday's training and could contend for a medal as well.
Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
The Americans overwhelmed the Czechs for most of the game, out shooting them 42 to 14.
The moment of the match was when U.S.
Captain Hillary Knight muscled through a defender to sling in her 13th career Olympic goal.
It's the fifth Olympic Games for Knight.
That's a record for any American hockey player, man or woman.
Meanwhile, it was the debut for 22-year-old star Layla Edwards, the Wisconsin Badgers college hockey standout, who is now the first black woman to play for the U.S.