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East Oregonian
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Downhill Skiing
With Olympics looming, Vonn’s priority is avoiding injury
American standout aims
to be healthy for likely
final Olympics in 40
days in Pyeongchang
By ERIC WILLEMSEN
Associated Press
BAD
KLEINKIRCHHEIM,
Austria — After a four-week break
from racing, American standout
Lindsey Vonn is returning to the
Alpine skiing World Cup this
weekend with an unusual mindset.
For the most successful female
skier of all time, Vonn’s main
priority at the first speed events of
2018 won’t be winning.
With only 40 days left until
her season highlight, the Olympic
downhill in Pyeongchang, avoiding
injuries is all that matters.
“I feel solid but my focus this
season is on the Olympics. So I
am not going to risk anything this
weekend,” Vonn told The Associ-
ated Press on Friday after taking
part in a shortened training session.
She was worried because the
snow on parts of the Karnten-Franz
Klammer course was still too weak
after heavy rain this week and mild
AP Photo/Marco Trovati
United States’ Lindsey Vonn warm up ahead of a partial temperatures.
“The top is good but the bottom
training of an alpine ski, women’s World Cup downhill, in
Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria, Friday.
is not safe to race,” she said.
Organizers
swapped
the
program for this weekend by
pushing back the downhill to
Sunday and rescheduling a super-G
for Saturday, as a downhill can be
staged only after competitors have
at least one training run on the
entire course.
“I am also not sure why the
super-G is first,” Vonn said.
“Considering the snow conditions,
it would be better to do the down-
hill first but, again, I don’t know.
We haven’t inspected the bottom
part of the course so I am not really
sure what the reason behind it is.”
Vonn said she would make
her own decision about racing or
not after checking the course on
Saturday, saying she would rather
sit it out “if conditions aren’t good
enough to run.”
Vonn badly injured her right
knee landing in a patch of soft
snow during the 2013 world
championships, which ultimately
ruled the 2010 Olympic downhill
champion out of the Sochi Games
the following year.
It explains the 33-year-old
American’s cautiousness going
into what likely will be her last
Olympics.
Her season so far has been rather
rough.
Trying to improve her ranking
ahead of the Olympic giant slalom,
she failed to qualify for the second
run of the season-opening GS in
Soelden, Austria, in October.
Focusing on the speed events
since, she landed in the safety
netting at full speed during the first
downhill in Lake Louise in early
December, and finished only 12th
in another downhill the next day.
She crashed again in a super-G on
the third day of racing at the Cana-
dian resort where she won 18 times
in the past.
A week later, she jarred her back
in a super-G in St. Moritz, Switzer-
land, completing the race in pain in
24th place.
Vonn hasn’t raced since Dec. 16
when she earned her 78th career
win at a super-G in Val d’Isere,
France. The following day, she took
part in the early morning inspection
for another super-G at the resort but
then decided against racing, citing a
sore knee, and flew home.
“The last race in Val d’Isere I
skied very well,” she said. “It still
wasn’t my best but I had a good
block at home in Colorado. I was
able to do a lot of condition training
and got some GS and slalom in as
well.”
Vonn practicing slalom under-
lined her ambition to start in the
Olympic combined event as well.
“I feel good, definitely,”
Vonn said, adding the knee was
hampering her “not more than
usual. I feel decent.”
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