Lindsey Vonn could celebrate her return to the White Circus in Switzerland. At least that is what various press agencies relayed by the ORF are saying. The American Ski Federation has, in fact, made a request to the FIS so that the skier with 82 World Cup victories can benefit from an invitation for the two super-Gs planned in Saint-Moritz (December 21-22). ).
However, before hoping to receive this famous “wild card”, which will not be a problem, and to resume a start in the elite almost six years after her last at the World Championships in Åre, Lindsey Vonn will have to start in FIS races, with the aim of lowering one’s FIS points. These competitions should be organized at Copper Mountain, according to our information collected last week. She should then be at the start of the Beaver Creek speed events (December 14-15) as an opener.
The difficulties of Marcel Hirscher
At 40, the skier with 137 World Cup podiums intends to imitate Marcel Hirscher, who returned after his five-year break. However, a very complicated return for the eight-time winner of the general classification. And the demands and risks taken between the speed disciplines, in which Lindsey Vonn aspires to participate, and those of techniques, in which the new Dutchman skis, are not the same. Many voices are being raised more and more to question the return of the merits of the return of the former superstar of the circuit.
Still, Lindsey Vonn intends to return to a track that she knows well and that she appreciates. In the past, she has triumphed five times on the Corviglia and took the bronze medal in downhill at the 2017 Worlds held in the Graubünden resort.
JT
Swiss
