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Lindsey vonn Wins Downhill in Saint-Moritz

lindsey Vonn’s “comeback” has just taken on the scale she hoped for.The 41-year-old American skier produced a stratospheric performance on Friday December 12 to win the downhill in Saint-Moritz (Switzerland). His frist success sence his return to competition a year ago, and the 83^e of his rich career in the World Cup.

“My body responds to all the requests of my mind and that has not always been the caseshe predicted before the race, interviewed by RTS. Now I can do anything, I feel like I’m a child again.”. Seven years after her last victory, the American “Speed ​​queen”, starting with bib number 16, distanced herself from the competition, counting respectively 98 hundredths and 1 sec 16 ahead of the Austrians Magdalena Egger and Mirjam Puchner, her closest competitors.

Something to warn skiers who may have forgotten about her: less then two months before the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Games, the boss is indeed back. Lindsey Vonn also celebrated this 83^e success by imitating the “Night Night” party of basketball player Stephen Curry – notably seen at the end of the Paris 2024 Olympic final against France – wishing “good night” to the opponents after having folded the game.

The skier from Vail (Colorado,United States) left the circuit in 2019,struggling to recover from a knee injury. Returned to business last yearwith the 2026 Olympics in her sights, the four-time winner of the downhill crystal globe – the last one was 13 years ago – did not win a race in her first season, but became competitive again. “It’s like cycling. I don’t feel like there has been a major change during my six years of absence, I feel like I’m doing what I’ve always known how to do.”she reacted to the microphone of Eurosport. Better physically prepared during the off-season, the woman whose right knee has been partly replaced by a titanium prosthesis

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