Italian skier Franzoni adds Kitzbühel downhill win to his breakout season with home Olympics looming

KITZBÜHEL, Austria (AP) — Italian skier Giovanni Franzoni put another exclamation point to his breakout World Cup season Saturday by winning on the classic Streif course, two weeks before the downhill race at his home Olympics. Franzoni’s triumph in Kitzbühel came eight days after his maiden career win in a super-G at another storied World Cup resort, Wengen. The 24-year-old Italian is a former junior world champion in downhill, super-G and combined, but had not been on a World Cup podium before last month, when he placed third in a super-G in Italy.

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