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Vancouver Now Brydon boosts Canadas ski team with 7th place finish Home Medals Results Canadian Results Schedule DaytoDay Schedule Athletes Featured Athletes Team Canada Full Athlete List News Venues Forums Blogs Videos Photos The GamesPast & Present Interactive Features SportsCurling Hockey Skating Figure Skating Short Track Speed Skating Skiing Alpine Skiing Biathlon CrossCountry Skiing Freestyle Skiing Nordic Combined Ski Jumping Sliding Bobsleigh Luge Skeleton Snowboarding Hot TopicsCanada vs US Sidney Crosby Hockey gold Closing ceremony Canadian Olympians Joannie Rochette Follow CBCListen to CBCRadio VancouverMultiLanguage BulletinsMandarinRussianArabicSpanishStory Tools EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Brydon boosts Canadas ski team with 7th place finish American Vonn dominates event Last Updated Friday December 18 2009 235 PM ET The Canadian Press Emily Brydon who suffered knee injuries prior to the 2002 Games said Fridays race was one of the toughest she has ever run (Franck FifeAFPGetty Images)Emily Brydon finally gave the beleaguered Canadian alpine ski team something to celebrate FridayThe Fernie BC native posted a careerbest seventhplace finish at a World Cup supercombined event in the French Alps Brydon finished with a combined time of two minutes 4069 seconds in decreased visibility on the challenging course in Val dIsreAmerican Lindsey Vonn won the race in 23755 more than a second faster than Maria Riesch of Germany (23871) Elisabeth Goergl of Austria was third in 23894Having lost five skiers to leg injuries in the past three weeks the latest being Franois Bourque who suffered a suspected torn ACL on Friday in Val Gardena Italy the Canadian team has been decimated less than two months before the start of the Vancouver OlympicsBrydon who suffered knee injuries prior to the 2002 Games said Fridays race was one of the toughest she has ever runThis has been probably some of the hardest times that I can remember being on the team said Brydon With John Kucera and then JeanPhilippe Roy it was a real slap in the face Then when it hits so close to home it really makes you think and it really affects youWith Larisa Yurkiw it was really sad and really hard With Kelly Vanderbeek it started to become more of a Why is this happening There is luck involved and it just feels like it is not on Canadas sideDifficult timeBrydon said her thoughts were with her fallen teammatesIt was a difficult time for me when you feel the sadness said Brydon My heart felt broken for those girls To be able to compartmentalize it and go out there and ski today was one of the most difficult things that I have ever doneI experienced both of my knee injuries in 2001 and my second one was three months from the Games I remember what it felt like to have th...