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France 24
22-05-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Vonn and Shiffrin glad to race Olympics on familiar terrain
The former Olympic and world champion stunned the sports world when she returned to the US ski team last year aged 40, five years after retirement. Vonn's retirement followed a serious knee injury but after she underwent a titanium reconstruction of her knee, she opted to return. And she told AFP that the prospect of competing for gold at the course in the Italian Dolomites was her primary motivator. "It was probably the biggest reason why I came back -- because it was in Cortina. I don't know if I would have come back if the Olympics hadn't been in Cortina," she said. "It's always been historically a great place for me. It's where I got my first podium, where I broke the Women's World Cup win record, and I think it would be a really fitting place to end my career again. It's definitely been the carrot that's been dangling in front of me," she said. Vonn picked up the first podium of her return at Sun Valley in March, finishing second behind Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami in a World Cup Super-G race. It was a sweet reward for her efforts after she had faced some criticism for taking the risks on the snow after such a long absence. "The comeback season was incredible. A lot of amazing experiences. Sun Valley was definitely the best way to end it," said Vonn, who was speaking at an NBC event previewing the Winter Games. "It gives me a lot of confidence going into next season. But it was definitely up and down, some low points, and some really amazing experiences. "So I think I learned a lot. I know what I have to do next year. I think, hopefully, people understand now my capabilities, and I think the conversation will be hopefully a little different next year than it was this year," she added. Vonn won her Olympic gold medal in downhill in Vancouver in 2010, a year after clinching World Championship gold at Val d'Isere. Beautiful place Her team-mate Mikaela Shiffrin, who endured a nightmare Olympics in Beijing in 2022, said she was also glad that a well known European venue had been chosen for the next Games. "It's a beautiful place and it's a place that we're more familiar with on the Alpine side. And that feels really good to go to a place where we have some knowledge," she told AFP. "We can talk about the Olympic planning and we can imagine what it's maybe going to look like because we've been there, we've seen it. And so that's going to be, I think, a really nice thing to go to a place that feels, for me in a way, it feels like home. Because I spent so much of my life in Europe now that it's like, OK, here we are. We know," she said. Shiffrin, who has the most World Cup wins of any skier in history, won gold in slalom in Sochi in 2014 as an 18-year-old and then triumphed in giant slalom in Pyeongchang four years later. But in Beijing she failed to finish in either of her favoured events and left without a medal. "I think what I realized from the Olympics is there's always something new around the corner. And when I thought I experienced everything after South Korea, then Beijing came and changed everything I knew about the Olympics," she said. "It just gave me experience of how hard and upsetting this kind of event can be when everything does go kind of wrong," she said. "I think that the best approach is like, do the best we can, and I'll be prepared and I'll practice and be ready to go. And then what happens, happens, but life goes on," she said.
NBC Sports
25-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Gut-Behrami captures GS win in Sun Valley
Lara Gut-Behrami found herself atop the podium in the giant slalom at the Alpine skiing World Cup Finals in Sun Valley, Idaho ahead of Federica Brignone, the overall GS champion and crystal globe winner, and Sara Hector.
CBC
23-03-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami wins Sun Valley super-G race and season title
Lara Gut-Behrami picks up her 47th World Cup win to capture the sixth super-G Crystal Globe of her career.
BBC News
23-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Vonn secures first podium since comeback aged 40
Lindsey Vonn secured her first podium finish since making her comeback at the age of 40 after finishing second in the super-G at the World Cup Finals in Sun Valley, three-time Olympic skiing medallist finished 1.29 seconds behind Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami, who claimed a record sixth super-G Vonn retired in February 2019 but announced she would come back to the sport in November last year having had successful knee surgery in made her competitive return at the FIS Fall Festival at Copper Mountain, Colorado in Federica Brignone, who led the super-G season standings by five points going into the event, finished made her World Cup debut aged 16 in 2000 and went on to win 20 World Cup titles - including four overall Crystal Globes - and eight World Championship medals, with 137 World Cup podiums and 82 World Cup won Olympic downhill gold at the Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, where she also took bronze in the Super-G. She claimed another downhill bronze in Pyeongchang in 2018.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Federica Brignone clinches Alpine skiing World Cup overall title, breaks age record
Italian Federica Brignone already this season became the oldest woman to win an Alpine skiing World Cup race in downhill, super-G and giant slalom. Now she's the oldest woman or man to win a World Cup overall title, the biggest annual prize in the sport crowning the best ski racer spanning all events. Brignone, 34, clinched her second overall title Saturday after the cancellation of the first race of the four-race World Cup Finals, a downhill, due to wind. She is 382 points ahead of Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, last year's overall champion, with three races left in the 35-race season. A race winner receives 100 points on a descending scale, so Gut-Behrami cannot mathematically catch Brignone. The Italian previously claimed the crystal globe in the COVID-shortened 2019-20 season. Brignone has more at stake at the World Cup Finals over the next three days. She can become the first woman to sweep the downhill, super-G and giant slalom season titles. Brignone already secured the downhill season title. She goes into Sunday's super-G (1 p.m. ET, NBC and Peacock) leading those season standings by five points over Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami. She goes into Tuesday's giant slalom trailing New Zealand's Alice Robinson by 20 points — equal to the difference between first and second place in one race. This has been Brignone's best season with 10 wins across downhill, super-G and giant slalom, plus world championships medals of gold (giant slalom) and silver (super-G). No other woman has more than three World Cup victories this season. Brignone spent her first six years in the 2026 Olympic co-host city of Milan, scooting around her family's carpeted apartment floors on plastic skis. Her mom, Maria Rosa Quario, competed in Alpine skiing at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics with a best finish of fourth. Brignone attended 2006 Torino Games Alpine races, then competed at the last four Olympics. She has one silver medal and two bronze. An Italian has never won an Olympic Alpine medal on home snow. 2025 Alpine skiing World Cup Finals TV, live stream schedule How to watch the 2025 Alpine skiing World Cup Finals from Sun Valley, Idaho, on NBC Sports and Peacock. Nick Zaccardi, Nick Zaccardi,
