Lindsey Vonn captures 2nd place in World Cup with hopes for 2026 Olympics

Lindsey Vonn proved she ne'er mislaid her skiing prowess.

The Olympic gold-medalist Alpine skier returned to the podium implicit the weekend, finishing successful 2nd spot successful a World Cup super-G contention connected Sunday. The effect came six years aft she archetypal retired from the athletics and 11 months aft undergoing a partial genu replacement.

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Second-place finisher Lindsey Vonn reacts during a medal ceremonial for the women's super-G astatine the World Cup Finals connected Sunday, March 23, 2025 successful Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The 40-year-old prima became the oldest pistillate Alpine skis racer to decorativeness connected the podium.

"It was f---ing hard," Vonn said. "This is not casual what I’m doing. It conscionable felt truly bully to accidental I did it. That I tin inactive bash it."

Vonn was affectional aft the race, which was won by Swiss rival Lara Gut-Behrami.

"Age is conscionable a number," Vonn said. "If you consciousness good, and you’re mentally inactive driven, and you enactment hard, you tin execute thing you acceptable your caput to."

She added that the doubters and naysayers besides fueled her.

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Lindsey Vonn skis during a women's super-G tally astatine the World Cup Finals connected Sunday, March 23, 2025 successful Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

"Sometimes the antagonistic voices, they thrust maine much than the affirmative ones," Vonn said. "I usage each that arsenic fuel. It propelled maine done immoderate pugnacious times this year. I knew that I could bash it.

"When I crossed the decorativeness line, there’s a batch of alleviation to beryllium wherever I cognize I tin beryllium and to soundlessness truthful galore antagonistic voices that person conscionable been surrounding me, it feels like, each season. It was conscionable a bully exclamation constituent to enactment connected the season."

On Friday, Vonn spoke astir her extremity to vie successful the 2026 Olympics successful Cortina, Italy.

"These Olympics, it’s each I truly wanted to do," she told The Associated Press. "Cortina is 1 of my favourite places, truthful that’s the carrot that was dangling successful beforehand of me.

"As soon arsenic that’s gone, past I tin spell backmost to skiing immoderate pulverization and playing tennis and surviving the beingness that I’ve been surviving for the past six years."

Lindsey Vonn reacts aft a women's downhill grooming tally astatine the World Cup Finals connected Friday, March 21, 2025 successful Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Vonn past medaled successful the 2018 Pyeongchang Games successful South Korea. She has 82 World Cup wins successful her vocation and 3 Olympic medals, with 2 bronze to her 1 gold.

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Vonn said Sunday helium planned to remainder for a fewer weeks earlier heading to Europe for much testing.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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