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Vonn says she has 'nothing to prove' as she preps for Olympic return
Lindsey Vonn aims to compete in her fifth Winter Olympics after partial knee replacement surgery and recent World Cup podium finish, focusing on Cortina d'Ampezzo.
- Three-Time Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn, 41, is targeting a fifth Winter Olympics in February in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, after reaching the World Cup super-G podium in Sun Valley earlier this year.
- After partial knee-replacement surgery last year, Vonn said she wants to close her career chapter better than in 2019, prompting renewed training efforts.
- In Cortina d'Ampezzo, Vonn has three Olympic medals and 8 World Championship medals, with 12 World Cup wins and her first of 138 podiums there in 2004.
- Vonn must earn enough qualifying points on this winter's World Cup circuit and plans to compete in downhill, super-G and team combined events.
- Her comeback has drawn mainstream attention, with Vonn landing on the cover of Time magazine and saying she has `a lot more perspective now` after six years away from the sport.
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Lindsey Vonn says she has ‘nothing to prove’ as skier prepares to return to Winter Olympics
NEW YORK — Lindsey Vonn feels like she has “nothing to prove” in her bid to return to the Olympics at the age of 41, more than two decades since her first. The American ski great with medals in multiple disciplines said on Tuesday she’s not worried about tarnishing her legacy after coming out of retirement several years after she last competed. “I don’t think anyone remembers Michael Jordan’s comeback,” Vonn said at the Team USA Olympic Media Su…
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Vonn says she has 'nothing to prove' as she preps for Olympic return
NEW YORK — Lindsey Vonn feels like she has "nothing to prove" in her bid to return to the Olympics at the age of 41, more than two decades since her first.
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