Vonn sets World Cup mark

Associated Press

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy

The whole gang was there when Lindsey Vonn finally became the most successful women’s World Cup skier of all time.

Her mother had come to Europe for the first time. The American’s once-estranged father came along, too.

And then a masked man showed up as Vonn celebrated a super-G victory Monday for her record 63rd World Cup win to make the party complete.

Wearing a mask with a skull design, boyfriend Tiger Woods weaved through the crowd unnoticed until he shared an emotional embrace with Vonn, who had no idea that the golfer was jetting to Europe for the occasion.

“No way!” Vonn exclaimed when she spotted him.

“It was an amazing surprise,” Vonn said. “I’m so happy that he’s here. ... Everyone important to me is here — my mom and dad and my sister and Tiger — it’s pretty incredible. I didn’t think it was going to get better than yesterday and today topped it.”

Vonn broke Annemarie Moser-Proell’s 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup wins with a flawless run down the Olympia delle Tofane course, finishing by a huge margin of 0.85 ahead of Anna Fenninger of Austria.

Woods has another reason not to like cameras — his agent said it cost him a tooth.

“During a crush of photographers as the awards podium at the World Cup event in Italy, a media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth,” Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports said in an email. “Woods’ tooth was knocked out.”