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Lindsey Vonn Details Her Attempts to Race Against Men
Lindsey Vonn is gearing up for a comeback tally connected the slopes.
The Olympic golden medal victor plans to rejoin the United States skis team, months aft she underwent palmy genu country and much than 5 years aft she announced her retirement.
"Well, it’s disconnected to Colorado…." the 40-year-old wrote connected Instagram Nov. 14, alongside a video of herself making her mode down a skis slope. "I anticipation the @usskiteam azygous inactive fits #onedayatatime."
Vonn explained the crushed down her determination to instrumentality to the sport. "Obviously, I wouldn’t beryllium doing this if I didn’t anticipation to beryllium racing," she told The New York Times successful an interrogation published the aforesaid day. "I person aspirations. I emotion to spell fast. How accelerated tin I go? I don’t know."
The jock continued, “But I’m not going to enactment myself successful a presumption to fail. My extremity is to bask this, and hopefully that roadworthy takes maine to World Cup races. I wouldn’t beryllium backmost connected the U.S. skis squad if I didn’t person intentions."
Vonn underwent right-knee replacement country successful April and resumed skiing astir the commencement of the summer, pain-free, the New York Times reported. Since August, she has privately logged 15 days of on-snow contention grooming successful Europe and New Zealand and plans to enactment successful the U.S. skis team's grooming sessions astatine Copper Mountain successful Colorado, which statesman Nov. 16.
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The Rise: My Story writer is besides not ruling retired a 5th Olympic tally to vie successful the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
“I’ve ever enjoyed racing successful Cortina and I’ve had a batch of occurrence successful Cortina," said Vonn, who has won 12 World Cup races successful the area. "I don’t cognize what the adjacent fewer months and the adjacent twelvemonth and a fractional clasp for me. So I can’t accidental close present if it’s a possibility."
At this point, Vonn added, she's not chasing thing oregon trying to beryllium thing to anyone.
"With what I’ve done successful my career, I’m thankful I tin beryllium successful this position," she said. "I don’t person immoderate pressure. It’s conscionable maine and the upland similar it was successful the beginning.”
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U.S. Ski & Snowboard said the beingness of the three-time Olympic medalist, who has besides won a full of 20 World Cup titles since 2004, "will bring an other furniture of acquisition to the already palmy alpine program."
"Lindsey has made an indelible people connected alpine skiing and our enactment passim her career. We’re delighted to invited her back," U.S. Ski & Snowboard said President and CEO Sophie Goldschmidt said successful a statement. "Her dedication and passionateness towards alpine skiing is inspiring and we’re excited to person her backmost connected snowfall and spot wherever she tin spell from here."
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