{"id":68284,"date":"2026-03-06T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/emma-aicher-pips-breezy-johnson-at-val-di-fassa-to-close-on-vonn-and-shiffrin\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:58:58","slug":"emma-aicher-pips-breezy-johnson-at-val-di-fassa-to-close-on-vonn-and-shiffrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/emma-aicher-pips-breezy-johnson-at-val-di-fassa-to-close-on-vonn-and-shiffrin\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Aicher pips Breezy Johnson at Val di Fassa to close on Vonn and Shiffrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Aicher trims Vonn\u2019s downhill lead to just 14 points<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Pirovano wins first race in 125th World Cup start<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>USA\u2019s Johnson third as overall title race tightens<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With neither injured Lindsey Vonn nor Mikaela Shiffrin starting a World Cup downhill on Friday, Emma Aicher seized her chance to cut the American superstars\u2019 leads in the season-long standings.<\/p>\n<p>Aicher, the Olympic downhill silver medalist, placed second \u2013 just 0.01 behind first-time winner Laura Pirovano, pushing Olympic champion Breezy Johnson down to third \u2013 and reduced Vonn\u2019s lead in the downhill points race to just 14 with two races left.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/06\/aicher-val-di-fassa-downhill-vonn-shiffrin-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aicher trims Vonn\u2019s downhill lead to just 14 points Pirovano wins first race in 125th World Cup start USA\u2019s Johnson third as overall title race tightens With neither injured Lindsey Vonn nor Mikaela Shiffrin starting a World Cup downhill on Friday, Emma Aicher seized her chance to cut the American superstars\u2019 leads in the season-long &#8230; <a title=\"Emma Aicher pips Breezy Johnson at Val di Fassa to close on Vonn and Shiffrin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/emma-aicher-pips-breezy-johnson-at-val-di-fassa-to-close-on-vonn-and-shiffrin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Emma Aicher pips Breezy Johnson at Val di Fassa to close on Vonn and Shiffrin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}