While she returned to World Cup victory during the St. Moritz downhill, Lindsey Vonn assured that her ambition was to get on the podium at the next Winter Games in Milan-Cortina.
Appetite comes with eating. Returning to the Alpine Ski World Cup circuit at the end of 2024 after five years of absence, Lindsey Vonn has since changed status. While his return at the age of 40 questioned many observers,
the Saint Paul native has since silenced the critics. After returning to the podium during the Sun Valley finals with second place in the Super-G, the American put an end to more than six years of waiting by winning the downhill contested in Saint-Moritz on December 12. Three other podiums followed, including one in downhill and another in Super-G this weekend in Val d’Isère. Enough to allow him to approach the next Winter Games with a minimum of ambition.
Especially since the events will be organized on a track where she has already won twelve times in the World Cup. “
I will be very happy if I get a medal “, she said in an interview with CMR. However, Lindsey Vonn concedes that she will not necessarily have all the cards in hand when she joins Cortina d’Ampezzo next February. “ In skiing, at the Winter Games, there are a lot of variables that I can’t controlshe added. I obviously need a little luck on my side but I would already be very happy with a medal. » She could then expand a list of achievements which already contains an Olympic title in downhill in Vancouver in 2010.
Vonn: “I’m in great shape”
It also includes two bronze medals, in Super-G again in Canada and again in downhill in Pyeongchang in 2018. Not hiding being “already the oldest medalist in alpine skiing at 33 years old”, Lindsey Vonn assures that she “worked a lot to get there” and will do her “maximum to be there and come back with a medal”. An event that the American intends to tackle to the maximum of her abilities after leaving the small world of alpine skiing because her “body was no longer keeping up”. “ I’m in great shape, and this is all new to me », she concluded as a message sent to her rivals for an Olympic podium which would cause a sensation if the 41-year-old skier achieved her goals on Italian soil.
