ROME (ITALPRESS) – Five years later Lindsey Vonn is having second thoughts and is back on skis. Clamorous comeback for the U.S. star, who had bid farewell to racing in February 2019. Today, at age 40, the announcement of the comeback. “Lindsey Vonn is back,” the Stars and Stripes Ski Federation announced in a note, explaining that the decision to return to racing comes after surgery on her right knee last April. “She has been able to return to training and testing her knee over the past two months and will continue her progress with the U.S. Ski Team in Colorado and beyond, opening an exciting new chapter in her already brilliant career,” a note reads. Vonn herself explains that “getting back to skiing without pain has been an incredible experience. I can’t wait to get back with the team and continue to share my experience with these amazing women. “Vonn’s return, in fact, is not entirely a surprise given that she told the BBC back in the summer that retirement had been harder than she expected and that she could not fill the racing gap. She will do so by returning to the circuit where she made her debut at age 16 in 2000, racking up 82 victories (the first of which was in 2004, a record later broken in January 2023 by Mikaela Shiffrin), as well as four overall World Cups, eight world medals and three Olympic medals (downhill gold and bronze in super-giant at Vancouver 2010 and bronze in downhill at Pyeongchang 2018). All this despite several injuries that forced her to miss, among others, the 2013 and 2014 seasons almost entirely. Now the comeback that, who knows, could bring her in two years to be among the protagonists of Milan-Cortina. In the meantime, the first stage to be circled in red could be Beaver Creek (Dec. 14-15) by asking Fis for a wild card as done by Marcel Hirscher, who in Soelden also made his comeback 5 years after retiring.- photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
