Skier breaks record after destroying field at San Moritz
One of favourites for 2026 Winter Olympics downhill
Lindsey Vonn’s extraordinary comeback from retirement and serious knee surgery gathered pace on Friday when she became the oldest skier to win a World Cup race at the age of 41.
The American, who had not raced for five years until she returned to the circuit last year, destroyed the women’s downhill field in San Moritz to win by nearly a second.
It was Vonn’s first downhill victory for nearly eight years, and the first in her comeback with titanium implants in her right knee. And it establishes her as one of the favourites for the downhill in February’s Winter Olympics in Milan–Cortina, the event she won her only gold medal in, back in Vancouver in 2010.
