Lindsey Vonn is again on the rostrum on Saturday after a World Cup downhill race that’s separated by a razor-thin margin of 0.24 seconds.
Someday after turning into the oldest winner of a World Cup downhill, the 41-year-old American completed second in a race on Saturday in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
After successful the season’s opening downhill by almost a full second on Friday, Vonn was overwhelmed by just one racer this time: Emma Aicher of Germany was 0.24 seconds quicker.
Vonn attributed a mistake to touchdown a soar halfway down her run for the hole, when she almost misplaced her steadiness for an prompt and leaned closely on her left leg to get again up.
“I’m a little bit tired from yesterday, there was a lot of emotion,” Vonn informed Swiss broadcaster RTS. “I thought I skied pretty well on top, then I was just out of balance, I fell on my hip. Yeah, didn’t ski the bottom the way I wanted to.”
United States’ Lindsey Vonn speeds down the course throughout an alpine ski, girls’s World Cup downhill, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Saturday Dec. 13, 2025.
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Sofia Goggia, the 2018 Olympic champion from Italy, completed third, 0.29 behind, and Breezy Johnson, the American world champion, was fourth, 0.40 again.
Vonn, who’s getting ready for the Milan Cortina Olympics, went into first place together with her run down the sun-drenched Corviglia course. However the 22-year-old Aicher got here down subsequent and rapidly pushed Vonn out of the chief’s seat.
Vonn returned to snowboarding final season after almost six years of retirement — following a partial alternative surgical procedure on her proper knee, which included inserting two items of titanium.
The three-time Olympic medalist informed CBS Sunday Morning in March that she “never thought” she can be speaking about going to the Olympics once more. Simply speaking about heading to Italy means she is “already winning,” she stated.
“I will be at a disadvantage,” Vonn stated. “I am 40, and at that time next year I will be 41. But I know my skiing is there. I think I’m actually skiing better now than I was last few years of my career.”
Vonn’s outcomes are shaping as much as make her a high medal contender on the Olympics — and in a position to compete with skiers half her age. Girls’s Alpine snowboarding on the Feb. 6-22 Winter Video games might be contested at Cortina d’Ampezzo, the place Vonn holds the file of 12 World Cup wins.
Vonn registered the highest pace of 64 mph on the highest part; elevated her pace to 68 mph on the backside and flew an enormous 41 yards off a soar towards the top of her run
Vonn additionally clocked the quickest time within the remaining sector — an indication of her elevated health this season. She stated earlier this week that she added 12 kilos of muscle throughout dry-land coaching over the summer time and adopted a inflexible food regimen.
When Vonn crossed the end line and noticed that she was forward of Goggia, Vonn celebrated, pondering that she had received. She let loose a scream, punched the air with one in all her poles after which raised her arms over her head, shaking her head in obvious disbelief.
It was Vonn’s one hundred and fortieth podium outcome and it got here in a record-breaking 410th World Cup race. Former Austrian skier Renate Götschl held the earlier file with 409 races.
It was Aicher’s third World Cup victory and second in downhill. She’s a uncommon all-around skier able to being aggressive in all 4 disciplines — like Vonn on the top of her profession.
Aicher additionally completed on the rostrum in a slalom this season, inserting third in Levi, Finland.
Vonn might goal for one more victory in a super-G in St. Moritz on Sunday — in a race that fellow American standout Mikaela Shiffrin can also be anticipated to compete in.
Shiffrin has not been racing downhill.
