Lindsey Vonn is just getting started on her comeback to ski racing at age 40 with her new titanium knee. She already has an endpoint in mind though.

In St. Anton, Austria, Vonn showed that she might be a World Cup podium contender at age 40. The naysayers may have just been silenced. During a pair of World Cup races in St. Anton, Austria, Lindsey Vonn—during her return to ski racing after a multi-year hiatus—claimed 6th place and 4th place.

Last Sunday, Vonn finished fourth in a super-G in St. Anton, Austria. Lindsey Vonn after competing in Austria on Jan. 12, 2025. AP Vonn holds the record of 12 wins in Cortina, the stage for next ...

Lindsey Vonn returned to the World Cup downhill slopes in St. Anton, Austria, on Jan. 11, where she placed sixth, two months after she announced her decision to come out of retirement and compete again.

Meanwhile, U.S. teammate Lauren Macuga dazzled in the Super-G, skiing to her first career World Cup win in 1:17.51. She looked to be in disbelief as she crossed the line and saw the time, a dominant 0.68 seconds clear of Austria’s Stephanie Venier in second. Italy’s Federica Brignone took the final podium spot.

Vonn won a record 43 downhills in her 82-win World Cup career. Her previous World Cup downhill had been in January 2019, placing ninth at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Lindsey Vonn told The Associated Press on Thursday that she plans to retire again after next year’s Olympics, when women’s skiing will be held in Cortina.

Lindsey Vonn has skied into an impressive sixth place in her first World Cup downhill race for six years ST ANTON, Austria -- Lindsey Vonn skied into an impressive sixth place in her first World ...

Six weeks ago, Mikaela Shiffrin didn’t have the core strength to even rise out of a chair. A sneeze or a laugh brought on instant pain. That was all due to a serious crash in a giant slalom race on Nov. 30 in Killington, Vermont, where something punctured her in the side — still a mystery — and caused severe trauma to her oblique muscles.

Marco Odermatt, fresh from a stunning victory in Wengen, will lead the men in World Cup Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbuehel, Austria, this weekend.

Vonn will race at Cortina this weekend, the site of some of her greatest successes. Can she recapture the magic?