Editor’s note: Lindsey Vonn is a former Olympic alpine skiing champion and eight-time World Cup downhill season champion. With less than a year to go until the 2026 Olympics, she writes about her return to the sport at age 40 and her thoughts on possibly ending her career at the upcoming Games. The women’s competition…
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Perusing the start list for the women’s alpine skiing World Cup, most of the numbers look the same. The document states the competitors’ names, nationality, bib number and year of birth. Some 42 of the 54 competitors were born in the 1990s, while 11 were born in the 2000s. And then…
After two straight DNFs, Lindsey Vonn was looking to get back to the finish line and put her comeback to alpine skiing back on track. On Sunday, the American star, returning to the sport at age 40, finished 13th in the World Cup Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, her highest finish since barely missing a podium…
Lindsey Vonn crashed out of a World Cup Super-G race on Sunday while on pace for her best finish so far in her comeback to alpine skiing. The American star was tracking toward a podium spot in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy — on the hill that will host the 2026 Olympics — when she went down…
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Before starting down the track, ski racers often receive course reports by radio, detailing conditions and delivered by teammates at the finish who skied the course ahead of them. It’s not every day those reports come from Lindsey Vonn, three-time Olympic medalist, 82-time World Cup winner and one of alpine skiing’s…