Return of an alpine ski figure –
At 40, Lindsey Vonn returns to the United States team
With the ambition of returning to the World Cup, the American does not rule out a possible participation in the 2026 Olympic Games in Cortina.
Lindsey Vonn won the bronze medal in the women’s downhill at the 2019 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Are, Sweden.
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After Marcel Hirscher, another great figure in alpine skiing could well return to the World Cup. At 40, Lindsey Vonn rejoined the United States team.
In an article in the “New York Times”, we learn that with a brand new right knee, the former speed queen no longer feels pain and that she would not take a dim view of a possible participation in the 2026 Olympics in Cortina.
“Being able to ski without pain again has been incredible,” the skier said in a press release from the American Ski Federation, without giving a specific return date.
“I try not to move too quickly,” she said in an interview with the New York Times published Thursday. “But of course I have ambitions.”
“My goal is to enjoy and hopefully it will take me to the World Cup,” she added.
When she stopped competing five years ago, she was the woman with the most victories with 82 World Cup successes. Since then, Hurricane Mikaela Shiffrin has passed by and stolen this record, bringing it to 97 for the time being.
Lindsey Vonn returns to the US national team with ambitions of returning to the World Cup. It will obviously not be this weekend during the Levi slalom, but the World Cup will fly to North America and in particular speed events at Beaver Creek. They will use for the first time the Birds of Prey track, traditionally skied down by the men, and it is perhaps this challenge which particularly attracts Lindsey Vonn.
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