Lindsey Vonn proved she never lost her skiing.
The Olympic Gold Medal Alpine skier returned to the podium this weekend and finished in second place in a world championship super-g race on Sunday. The result came six years after she only retired from the sport and 11 months after undergoing a partial knee replacement.
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The second place finishes Lindsey Vonn responds during a medal era for the women’s super-g in the World Cup on Sunday 23 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher)
The 40-year-old star became the oldest female alpine ski racer to finish on the podium.
“It was tough,” Vonn said. “This isn’t easy what I’m doing. It just felt really good to say I did it. That I can still do it.”
Vonn was emotional after the race won by Swiss competitor Lara Gut-Behrami.
“Age is just a number,” Vonn said. “If you are well and you are mentally driven and you work hard, you can achieve everything you put your mind into.”
She added that doubters and Naysayers were also burning her.
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Lindsey Vonn Ski during a woman’s super-g race in the World Cup on Sunday, March 23, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
“Sometimes the negative voices, they drive me more than the positive ones,” Vonn said. “I use all that fuel. It propelled me through some hard times this year. I knew I could do it.
“When I crossed the finish line, there is a lot of relief to be where I know I can be, and to dampen so many negative voices that have just surrounded me, it feels like, all season. It was just a nice exclamation mark to put the season on.”
On Friday, Vonn talked about his goal of competing in the 2026 Olympics in Cortina, Italy.
“These Olympics, that’s all I really wanted to do,” she told Associated Press. “Cortina is one of my favorite places, so it’s the carrot dangling in front of me.
“As soon as it’s gone, I can go back to skiing on some powder and playing tennis and living the life I have been living in the last six years.”
Lindsey Vonn responds after a woman’s downhill training in the World Cup on Friday, March 21, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Vonn last medal in Pyeongchang Games 2018 in South Korea. She has 82 World Cup gains in her career and three Olympic medals with two bronze for her one gold.
Vonn said on Sunday he was planning to rest for a few weeks before going to Europe for more testing.
