BORMIO, Italy — The final women's World Cup downhill of the season was canceled today because of soft snow on the Stelvio course, possibly hurting Lindsey Vonn's chances at an overall title.

The American had already clinched the season downhill title after winning five of nine races. She leads the overall standings by 157 points.

The men's downhill at the World cup finals was also called off a day earlier.

The women's race was first delayed by two hours, then finally called off. It snowed for the second straight night but daytime temperatures have been relatively mild.

Vonn also leads the overall standings but the cancellation of her strongest event could hurt her chances to claim the title because she will miss a chance to increase her lead.

With 300 points at stake from three races remaining, Vonn has 1,263, Maria Riesch of Germany has 1,106, and Nicole Hosp of Austria has 1,085. But both usually do better than Vonn in the three races remaining, super-G, giant slalom and slalom.

Wins are worth 100 points, second place 80, third 60 and down to 16 points for 15th.

The men's downhill title was decided without racing at Bormio. It also was scheduled for today, but World Cup organizers called it off yesterday because the racers had not been able to put in any of the mandatory training runs.

The title went to Didier Cuche of Switzerland, prompting complaints from Bode Miller, who was second.

Cuche won the downhill title for the second year in a row, beating Miller by just five points. Miller is also in a close fight with Cuche and Benjamin Raich for the overall World Cup title.

"The evidence points to they didn't want to get the race off," Miller told The Associated Press. "The Swiss have an angle to not race because their guy wins the title if we don't race today and it's very risky for them to get that title if we do race.

"The Austrians have an angle because they don't want an extra bunch of points that Raich isn't going to score that me and Cuche would score for the overall title."

Miller and Vonn are seeking to become the first American duo to clinch overall World Cup ski titles in 25 years.

While Miller won the overall in 2005, the United States hasn't pulled off the sweep since Phil Mahre and Tamara McKinney took the titles in 1983.