As teams settled on final picks for the weekend's downhill races, in-form Austrian Vincent Kreichmayr headed times for men's training before it was cancelled due to fog.

Stuhec, who leads the World Cup downhill standings and has won five races this season including three downhills and a super-G, clocked 1min 33.37sec, a second quicker than her winning time on Wednesday.

Switzerland's Fabienne Suter was again second, with Austrian Christine Scheyer in third.

American speed queen Lindsey Vonn, who has targeted her favoured downhill on Sunday after skiing out of the super-G, was in fourth and confirmed she would also compete in Friday's alpine combined.

"It was solid," Vonn said of her run. "Yesterday I was just checking things out, the light was a little bit flat when I ran so I didn't really push it and slowed myself down in a couple places.

"Today I skied a much more solid and clean run, I definitely still have a couple more gears in me which I'm saving for tomorrow and also for Sunday."

Vonn, making a comeback from a broken humerus in November, added: "I like this track, it's fun and fast, there's lots of really fun terrain, the jumps are big, I'm building my confidence every day. Things look positive for the races."

One of the consequences from that broken armbone is a lack of grip for Vonn, who lost her pole in the super-G and has now taken to taping her hand to the pole.

Duct tape and old-school gloves

"Yesterday I taped my hand and today I taped it," she said, adding that she had taken to wearing "old-school thin downhill gloves".

"It helped getting a better grip on the pole and having a little bit of a better feel for it. It's going to help, hopefully I can focus on racing and not whether the pole's in my hand!"

Switzerland's Lara Gut, bronze medallist in the super-G, was happy with her eighth place down the 2.6km-long Engiadina course.

"It was nice," she said. "It's getting easier every day to ski so you can't make mistakes, you have to ski clean.

"It's what we like: sunshine and lots of people coming up, so I'll try to do my best and enjoy my runs."

Kreichmayr had dominated men's training, clocking 1min 40.31sec down the 2.7km long Corviglia piste.

His finishing time, thanks to him reaching speeds of up to 117kph, was a massive 1.30sec ahead of Swiss speed specialist Beat Feuz.

But it counted for nothing after training was cancelled after 24 runners as fog drifted across the Engadina valley.

Canada's surprise super-G winner Erik Guay was 1.41sec off Kreichmayr's pace.

"It's always fun to be back on the slope," Guay said.

"Today I couldn't bring that intenstiy that I had yesterday. It was difficult for me actually.

"But it was a solid run, no major mistakes.

"I'll have to take a look at the video, Vincent Kreichmayr was incredibly fast. I'm excited and looking forward to Saturday."