Lindsey Vonn will function a forerunner, take a look at out the course earlier than World Cup races at Beaver Creek

The U.S. Ski Crew confirmed her function Tuesday. A forerunner goes earlier than the sphere to verify the course is working easily and the timing system is correctly working. There’s a downhill race slated for Saturday on the demanding Birds of Prey course and a super-G on Sunday.

The 40-year-old Vonn is on the comeback path almost six years since her final main race. She efficiently competed in a collection of lower-level downhill and super-G competitions final weekend in Copper Mountain to achieve sufficient factors to be eligible for World Cup occasions. Vonn did not earn a spot in time for this weekend’s races in Beaver Creek and hasn’t introduced a timeline for her return to the World Cup scene.

Vonn’s final main competitors was in February 2019, when she took third within the downhill throughout the world championships in Sweden. An assortment of accidents, together with to her knee, despatched her into retirement.

After a partial knee substitute final April, Vonn continues to really feel stronger on the slopes as she dials in her ski gear and will get used to excessive charges of velocity once more.

“Life is admittedly quick, and I don’t know what’s going to occur tomorrow,” Vonn mentioned in an interview with The Related Press final weekend on why she determined to return. “However I do know what I’m going to do in the present day — I’m going to have enjoyable.”

When Vonn left the tour, she had 82 World Cup wins — the report for a lady on the time and inside attain of the all-time Alpine mark of 86 held by Swedish standout Ingemar Stenmark. The ladies’s report held by Vonn was eclipsed in January 2023 by Mikaela Shiffrin, who now has 99 wins — greater than any Alpine ski racer within the historical past of the game.

Shiffrin is presently recovering from a crash in a large slalom occasion in Killington, Vermont, on Nov. 30. Shiffrin sustained muscle trauma and an belly puncture wound however no ligament or bone harm. She received’t participate within the Beaver Creek races.

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