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For as good of a showing as Lindsey Vonn had over the weekend, she realizes that winning a fourth straight World Cup overall title remains a long shot.

The optimistic side of Vonn thinks the crown is still possible after making up a staggering 100 points on leader and good friend Maria Riesch of Germany.

But the pragmatic part of her admitted in a teleconference Monday that it’s “not likely.”

Vonn trails Riesch by 96 points heading into the final six races, four of which involve the giant slalom and slalom — hardly Vonn’s best events.

“Don’t get me wrong, there’s still a chance. But it’s not a big one,” Vonn said. “The odds are not on my side. It’s still Maria’s title to lose. I’m going to still keep fighting until the very last race.”

Vonn had quite a performance last weekend to make things a little more interesting down the stretch. She clinched discipline titles in the super-combined, downhill and super-G during the races in Tarvisio, Italy.

While the Olympic downhill champion has closed the gap, Riesch is far from fretting, especially since the upcoming events favor her style.

“I knew that the gap would be a little bit narrower at this point, but now come the technical events and I hope that the margin will be bigger again after the upcoming weekend,” Riesch said as the women’s circuit travels to Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, for giant slalom and slalom races next weekend, before finishing up with the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, March 16-20. “I am not going to let myself be bothered. I knew that it would be a hard fight until the end.”