Lindsey Vonn ‘did the splits’ en route to 68th win

Lindsey Vonn overcame a brief scare to win her 68th World Cup race, a downhill at her favorite course in Lake Louise, Alberta, on Friday.

The 2010 Olympic downhill champ prevailed by a comfortable .58 of a second over Austrian Cornelia Huetter for her first victory this season in the first speed race of the campaign. Another Austrian, Ramona Siebenhofer, took third.

Vonn, coming back from fracturing an ankle in an August training crash, washed out in her previous start, a giant slalom last weekend.

On Friday, Vonn was on pace to win by a larger margin before she lost control coming around a turn about halfway down the course, forced to widen her stance to keep from falling. She recovered,…