SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM – Lindsey Vonn accomplished pre-race inspection and was planning on competing within the super-G on the Alpine snowboarding world championships on Thursday regardless of feeling sick with “a chilly or the flu.”
It is the primary race of those worlds for the 40-year-old Vonn, who just lately returned to the ski circuit after practically six years of retirement with a brand new titanium proper knee.
Vonn instructed The Related Press on Wednesday that she has “a chilly or the flu or one thing” however that she was ”attempting to do the whole lot I can to recuperate.”
Then she added on Instagram of her illness, “I wouldn’t let one thing like that stop me from racing after the whole lot I’ve gone via to get right here! I assume the competitor in me remains to be there…”
Vonn will begin with the No. 30 bib after all the favorites have already raced.
These are Vonn’s ninth worlds however her first for the reason that 2019 version when she gained bronze in downhill in her ultimate race earlier than retirement. The American has gained two golds on the worlds, having swept the super-G and downhill in Val d’Isere, France, in 2009. She has eight medals on the worlds.
Vonn can also be the 2010 Olympic downhill champion and she or he has two bronzes from the Olympics.
In a current interview with The AP, Vonn mentioned that the principle aim of her comeback is to compete at subsequent yr’s Milan-Cortina Olympics, when ladies’s snowboarding might be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the Italian resort the place Vonn holds the report with 12 wins.
Thursday marks precisely one yr to the Feb. 6, 2026 opening ceremony for the following Winter Video games.
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