U.S. skier Julia Mancuso is heading back to the site of her Turin Olympics giant slalom victory on a record streak of five-straight podium finishes in the World Cup.

Mancuso won a super-G and finished second in a downhill and a giant slalom this past weekend in Cortina. Those results followed a victory in a super-combi and third place in a downhill a week before.

Not bad for someone who had hip surgery in April.

"I'm skiing better and better, but it's kind of like starting over again," Mancuso said between runs in Sunday's giant slalom, in which she finished second.

"I don't really get in the starting gate and be like 'I won the Olympics, so I'm going to win today.' It's more like one race at a time."

Mancuso's streak is the best by an American woman since March 1983, when Tamara McKinney had four podiums,including three wins,in five days. McKinney went on to win the overall title that season, the last American woman to do so.

With the 260 points she gained this weekend, Mancuso is closing in on overall leader Marlies Schild, who failed to finish the two races she entered this weekend. The Austrian leads Mancuso by only 87 points.

Schild leads the standings with 881 points, Nicole Hosp has 828, and Mancuso 794.

Two super-Gs and a downhill are scheduled for San Sicario next weekend.

"It's been really good these past few days. We'll see how it is at the end of the season," Mancuso said.

She won her Olympic gold medal in GS in Sestriere, just up the road from San Sicario.

"I've had good days and bad days on that downhill course, so I'm excited," Mancuso said. "I think it's a good course. I just hope it's not too warm there."

She won't have to race against Anja Paerson in San Sicario.

The two-time overall champion has returned home to Sweden to prepare for the world championships in Are beginning on February 3.