Published on December 18, 2024 at 11:34. / Modified on December 18, 2024 at 11:42.
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Alpine skiing will unwrap its Christmas present early this weekend in St. Moritz. After six years of retirement, the installation this spring of a titanium prosthesis in the knee and only four third category races at the beginning of December at Copper Mountain, Lindsey Vonn will participate in the two super-Gs organized in the Graubünden resort. The American star with 82 World Cup victories retains at 40 years of age an incomparable power of attraction over the media around the world, who will massively take the road to the Engadine this week.
This express return was facilitated by the International Ski Federation (FIS) which issued an invitation to the four-time winner of the big crystal globe of the World Cup. (wild card). At the end of October in Sölden, for the opening of the season, another renowned returnee, the Austrian Marcel Hirscher, had obtained the right to start the giant slalom just after the 30 best specialists, attracting criticism from certain competitors who saw in this “Lex Hirscher” a bonus for notoriety and a dent in the sacrosanct principle of sporting meritocracy.
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