{"id":131070,"date":"2025-03-24T01:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/lindsey-vonn-makes-first-podium-of-alpine-skiing-comeback-i-proved-everyone-wrong-nbc-sports\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T01:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:54:38","slug":"lindsey-vonn-makes-first-podium-of-alpine-skiing-comeback-i-proved-everyone-wrong-nbc-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/lindsey-vonn-makes-first-podium-of-alpine-skiing-comeback-i-proved-everyone-wrong-nbc-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn makes first podium of Alpine skiing comeback: \u2018I proved everyone wrong\u2019 – NBC Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindsey Vonn made her first podium since returning from a five-year retirement, finishing second in the super-G at the World Cup Finals in Sun Valley, Idaho, in her last race of the season.
Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami won Sunday\u2019s race \u2014 and the super-G season title.
Vonn finished 1.29 seconds back in second place in what was likely her last World Cup race on U.S. soil, 11 months before she hopes to race at a fifth Olympics at the Milan Cortina Games.
\u201cI usually do better when the pressure\u2019s higher,\u201d Vonn, an 82-time World Cup winner and the 2010 Olympic downhill champion, said on NBC Sports. \u201cIt\u2019s the last race of the season. I just put it all on the line. This is the level that I know I can ski. I know I can even do better than that. It\u2019s been a rough season of people saying that I can\u2019t, that I\u2019m too old, that I\u2019m not good enough anymore. I think I proved everyone wrong.\u201d
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Vonn, 40, shattered the record of oldest women\u2019s World Cup podium finisher. Austrian Alexandra Meissnitzer made her last podium at 34 years and nearly 9 months old in 2008, according to ski-db.com.
Vonn made the first podium of her comeback in her 13th World Cup race. Her best previous finishes this season were sixth in a downhill and fourth in a super-G on Jan. 11 and 12.
\u201cThis year has just been really up and down, and it\u2019s been hard to stay positive sometimes, especially because people are telling me that I should just quit \u2014 again,\u201d said Vonn, whose 138 World Cup podiums are tied for third-most in history and 408 World Cup starts are one off Austrian Renate G\u00f6tschl\u2019s female record.
She\u2019s had a couple of crashes this season, had trouble adjusting to her equipment and even made big mistakes in some runs. But her right knee \u2014 partially replaced last April after major surgeries earlier in her career \u2014 has stayed healthy. She hasn\u2019t had to ice it once for the first time in maybe a decade.
\u201cSo it wasn\u2019t about how I was physically this year,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was just I couldn\u2019t put all the pieces together in one run.\u201d
Until Sunday. Vonn was in tears afterward.
\u201cI\u2019m passionate about what I do; I love skiing. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you love something and you work hard at something, it feels really good when you\u2019re finally rewarded. It was joy. It was relief. It was satisfaction in the fact that this adventure that I set myself on is worth something.\u201d
Vonn\u2019s goal in her comeback is to make her fifth Olympic team in 2026, then retire for good next year. She\u2019s well on her way.
A nation can qualify up to four skiers per Olympic race, and Vonn is the third-ranked American this season in the downhill and second in the super-G. The Olympic team for the Milan Cortina Games will be named next winter.
\u201cToday meant everything to me,\u201d said Vonn, whose 12 career World Cup wins at Cortina are a record for the venue. \u201cThis is the road now to Cortina next year.\u201d
Next season, the World Cup is expected to have one U.S. women\u2019s stop in Copper Mountain, Colorado, for a giant slalom and slalom. Vonn has been skiing exclusively the speed events of downhill and super-G in her comeback.
\u201cI really wanted to do well at home,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s very rare in my career that I\u2019ve ever been able to ski a speed event on home soil.\u201d
The World Cup Finals continue Tuesday with the women\u2019s giant slalom. USA Network airs live coverage of the second run at 2 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

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