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After missing the 2022 Olympics, Lindsey Vonn is back where she belongs.
The 41-year-old was on the 97-member US Ski and Snowboard team (50 women and 47 men) to officially complete her Olympic comeback.
Vonn did not compete at the 2022 Beijing Games due to an ACL injury, but she returned last season after a partial knee replacement and quickly began showing the form that made her a four-time overall World Cup champion.
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Lindsey Vonn of Team USA in action during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women’s downhill on January 10, 2026, in Zauchensee, Austria. (Millo Moravski/Zoom Agency/Getty Images)
She has won two World Cup downhill races this season (to bring her career total to 84) and will be a favorite in both sprint events in Cortina. Vonn took home a win earlier this month.
Vonn returned to skiing after being retired for six years and said she might be in the best shape of her career despite having partial knee replacement surgery. With each victory, Vonn extends her record as the oldest race winner in the championship’s 60-season history. world cup circuit. His 84th career victory at the circuit was his 45th in downhill, extending his record.
Vonn won her only gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. He also won a bronze in the super G that year and another in the downhill in Pyeongchang eight years ago.
Lindsey Vonn, right, reacts after receiving her bronze medal in the women’s downhill in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Mikaela Shiffrin also made her fourth Olympic team and Chloe Kim will compete for her third gold in as many Games.
Shiffrin is trying to bounce back after going 0-for-6 in her medal bid four years ago. She won gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Games and gold in giant slalom four years later in South Korea. She is assured this season in the slalom, winning six races.
Team USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin takes first place during the women’s slalom at the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup on Jan. 21, 2024, in Jasna, Slovakia. (Paul Bréchu/Zoom Agency/Getty Images)
Kim has won each of her golds in halfpipe, an event in which she also has three world championships to her name. He also won eight X Games gold medals in SuperPipe.
