Vonn off to Europe with 'butterflies of excitement'

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Lindsey Vonn off to Europe with ‘butterflies of excitement’ for 1st World Cup race in nearly 6 years

BEAVER CREEK — Lindsey Vonn flew down the Birds of Prey course one last time as a forerunner Sunday before flying off to Switzerland. Next up, her first World Cup race in nearly six years as the 40-year-old makes her return to ski racing. She will take part in a pair of super-G races in St. Moritz, Switzerland. “I have the butterflies of excitement — and that’s fun. I love that feeling,” Vonn said Sunday after trying out the course before the ra…

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Lindsey Vonn won 82 races in the Ski World Cup because she always took the riskiest line in the past. In 2019, the US daredevil resigned because her body was tattered. A partial knee prosthesis is now enabling the 40-year-old to make a comeback; this weekend, after a break of almost six years, Vonn will be at the start house at the women's classic in St. Moritz. Knee specialist Dr. Christian Hoser explains the risks of the undertaking. Much has …

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Lindsey Vonn, at historic stop for women’s alpine, kicks off her World Cup return - Overpasses For America

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Before starting down the track, ski racers often receive course reports by radio, detailing conditions and delivered by teammates at the finish who skied the course ahead of them. It’s not every day those reports come from Lindsey Vonn, three-time Olympic medalist, 82-time World Cup winner and one of alpine skiing’s greats. But they did on Saturday, when Vonn foreran the downhill course at Beaver Creek’s Birds of Prey World…

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Vonn off to Europe with 'butterflies of excitement'

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Lindsey Vonn flew down the Birds of Prey course one last time as a forerunner Sunday before flying off to Switzerland.

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It's confirmed! A month after announcing that she wanted to try to return to the World Cup after almost six years of retirement, American ski legend Lindsey Vonn said Friday that she would return to the world circuit at the stage in Saint-Moritz (Switzerland) on December 21 and 22....

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ZDF expert Marco Büchel is concerned about the comebacks of the two old ski stars Lindsey Vonn and Marcel Hirscher. Nevertheless, he believes that US star Vonn will be competitive.