Retired ski star Lindsey Vonn, competing in her first World Championship since 2019, showed no signs of knee pain during the downhill training session in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. She placed 20th and expressed her enjoyment of the challenging course, comparing it to her early days skiing at Vail. Vonn, who returned to the circuit at 40, plans to compete in the super-G, downhill, and team combined event.
The downhill course at the Alpine skiing world championships would have been a challenge for Lindsey Vonn ’s aching legs before she retired in 2019.“This is probably the worst hill for someone with bad knees, but I felt great,” Vonn said after placing 20th in the opening training session Tuesday. “None of the landings hurt at all.”
Vonn returned to the skiing circuit in December at the age of 40 and she wasn’t initially planning on racing at the worlds. But she’s made so much progress that she’s going to enter the super-G on Thursday, the downhill on Saturday and the team combined event next week.“I was just taking it easy,” she said. “I thought it was a really fun course, actually. Reminds me of when I was learning how to ski downhill at Vail. We had a lot of terrain that we built like this, so it’s fun.
Vonn told The Associated Press in a recent interview that the main goal of her comeback is to compete at next season’s Milan-Cortina Olympics — after which she’ll head back into retirement. “This season,” Vonn said, “is all about figuring out what it’s going to take to be successful next year.”
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