Lindsey Vonn plans to race on the Alpine skiing World Cup next week for the first time in nearly six years. Vonn, who announced her comeback last month, announced Friday that she plans to compete Dec. 21-22 in two super-Gs in St. Moritz, Switzerland. In a video captioned, “St. Moritz, here she comes,” Vonn said, […]
Lindsey Vonn plans to race on the Alpine skiing World Cup next week for the first time in nearly six years.
Vonn, who announced her comeback last month, announced Friday that she plans to compete Dec. 21-22 in two super-Gs in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
In a video captioned, “St. Moritz, here she comes,” Vonn said, “I hear St. Moritz is pretty nice this time of year.” U.S. Ski and Snowboard later confirmed she plans to enter both races.
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It will mark the 40-year-old Vonn’s first races on the sport’s highest level since she retired after the February 2019 World Championships, citing the toll ski racing injuries took on her body.
She decided to return to skiing after feeling pain-free following partial right knee replacement surgery in April.
Vonn made her competitive comeback last weekend, placing 19th, 24th, 24th and 27th in lower-level downhills and super-Gs in Copper Mountain, Colorado. She used those races as training opportunities. Those results made her eligible to return to the top-level World Cup.
Vonn plans to ski as a non-competitive forerunner before the Stifel Birds of Prey World Cup races at Beaver Creek, Colorado, in a downhill on Saturday and a super-G on Sunday. NBC and Peacock will air highlights on Sunday at 4 p.m. ET.
In St. Moritz, Vonn is in line to become the second-oldest woman on record to race on the World Cup. Former U.S. teammate Sarah Schleper did so at age 42 in 2022.
International Ski and Snowboard Federation online records show no other women 40 and older have raced on the Alpine World Cup, though results from the early decades of the World Cup are incomplete.
Vonn has not committed to a 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic bid yet. She owns 12 World Cup victories in Cortina, plus made her first World Cup podium there in 2004 and broke the then-women’s World Cup wins record there in 2016.
“When I retired, I think the number one thing that I was sad about was that I couldn’t race Cortina at the Olympics,” she said Wednesday. “In a perfect world, yeah, that would be amazing. But again, I’m trying to stay in the present. It’s a long ways to Cortina. So, again, just put the brakes on my expectations.”
Lindsey Vonn is rejoining the U.S. Alpine skiing team at age 40 after a nearly six-year retirement.
