SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM – Lindsey Vonn is feeling sick with “a chilly or the flu” on the eve of her first occasion on the world championships in her return to ski racing on the age of 40.
The American, a two-time world champion and the holder of eight whole medals on the largest occasion in snowboarding outdoors the Olympics, is scheduled to race within the super-G on Thursday.
“I positively have a chilly or the flu or one thing,” Vonn mentioned in an audio assertion despatched to The Related Press. “Yesterday afternoon I began to actually not really feel effectively. Making an attempt to do all the things I can to get well.”
On Instagram, Vonn posted a narrative that featured a photograph of her sporting a masks and apparently inhaling one thing. “Present state…might be higher,” she wrote.
Vonn positioned twenty ninth in Wednesday’s second downhill coaching session. Her different two races are the downhill on Saturday and the group mixed subsequent week.
“At the moment’s coaching was superb. Positively lacked power, particularly on the underside of the course, however hopefully I can relaxation the remainder of at present and be prepared for the super-G tomorrow,” Vonn mentioned within the audio assertion.
Vonn is scheduled to start out with the No. 30 bib within the super-G.
Mirjam Puchner of Austria led the coaching session on Wednesday and Breezy Johnson, Vonn’s American teammate, positioned second for the second straight day.
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