Tiger Woods on hand to cheer girlfriend Lindsey Vonn as skier targets one last chance for medal at World Championships

 

• Vonn finished 2.67 seconds behind the leaders in the first run of the giant slalom event at the alpine skiing world championships
• Vonn was disqualified from the Alpine combined race on Tuesday
• Anna Fenninger of Austria has a comfortable lead after the first run

Lindsey Vonn's tough week at the skiing world championships in Colorado continued as boyfriend Tiger Woods watched from the sideline.

Vonn, who broke down in tears after being disqualified from the Alpine combined race on Tuesday, was targeting her last chance of a medal in the giant slalom event on Thursday.

Vonn made several mistakes and wound up 2.67 seconds behind the leaders during the first run of the event. 

Lindsy Vonn (right) kisses her boyfriend Tiger Woods after her first run in the giant slalom event 

Vonn made several mistakes and wound up 2.67 seconds behind the leaders during the first run of the event 

Vonn, four-time world champion, has had a tough week on the slopes at the Skiing World Championships

Anna Fenninger of Austria has a comfortable lead after the first run of the event finishing in 1 minute, 8.98 seconds and holds a 0.81-second advantage over teammate Michaela Kirchgasser.

Sweden's Jessica Lindell-Vikarby trails by 0.90 seconds heading into the afternoon run. There are still lower-tier skiers competing, with 116 entrants in the field. 

Four-time wold champion Vonn made her competitive comeback to skiing at the beginning of the year having had to pull out of the Sochi Winter Olympics after suffering a potentially career-threatening knee injury in January 2014. 

Vonn equaled Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell's 35-year-old record of 62 women's Alpine skiing World Cup victories when she won a downhill race in Cortina d'Ampezzo in January.