Dec 11, 2024 05:43 AM IST
Lindsey Vonn will function a forerunner, check out the course earlier than World Cup races at Beaver Creek
Lindsey Vonn will check out the downhill and super-G programs as a forerunner earlier than the World Cup races this weekend in Beaver Creek, Colorado.
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The U.S. Ski Workforce confirmed her position Tuesday. A forerunner goes earlier than the sphere to verify the course is operating easily and the timing system is correctly working. There’s a downhill race slated for Saturday on the demanding Birds of Prey course and a super-G on Sunday.
The 40-year-old Vonn is on the comeback path practically six years since her final main race. She efficiently competed in a collection of lower-level downhill and super-G competitions final weekend in Copper Mountain to realize sufficient factors to be eligible for World Cup occasions. Vonn did not earn a spot in time for this weekend’s races in Beaver Creek and hasn’t introduced a timeline for her return to the World Cup scene.
Vonn’s final main competitors was in February 2019, when she took third within the downhill in the course of the world championships in Sweden. An assortment of accidents, together with to her knee, despatched her into retirement.
After a partial knee alternative final April, Vonn continues to really feel stronger on the slopes as she dials in her ski tools and will get used to excessive charges of pace once more.
“Life is really short, and I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow,” Vonn said in an interview with The Associated Press last weekend on why she decided to return. “But I know what I’m going to do today — I’m going to have fun.”
When Vonn left the tour, she had 82 World Cup wins — the report for a lady on the time and inside attain of the all-time Alpine mark of 86 held by Swedish standout Ingemar Stenmark. The ladies’s report held by Vonn was eclipsed in January 2023 by Mikaela Shiffrin, who now has 99 wins — greater than any Alpine ski racer within the historical past of the game.
Shiffrin is at present recovering from a crash in a large slalom occasion in Killington, Vermont, on Nov. 30. Shiffrin sustained muscle trauma and an belly puncture wound however no ligament or bone harm. She received’t participate within the Beaver Creek races.
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