U.S. star Lindsey Vonn successfully reported back in the Ski World Cup after six years of break. At the World Cup, too, she is considered a medal candidate, and she had already considered becoming a camera driver.
The press center is unusually filled a day before the official opening of the Ski World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. Several camera teams, photographers and journalists frolic in the middle of the room. They are all waiting for the American ski star Lindsey Vonn.
The American is one of the most exciting personalities in the World Cup current. Actually, she has already achieved everything you can achieve in this sport – but byn wants more: “I feel great, I think I’m ready. I’m quick, I can win a medal and that’s the only thing that counts at the World Cup.”
After a six -year break, world class again
In 2019, after the World Cup in ARE, she had hung up her skis, but now, six years later, the 40-year-old goes back to the world. And that with a partial denture in the knee. Especially in St. Anton, the American showed that she can take a podium even after several years: sixth place in the departure, fourth in the Super-G were amazed.
Vonn says that races in Austria are. So how practical that medals will be hunted in the Austrian Saalbach Hinterglemm in the next two weeks. For Vonn it is already the ninth World Cup. Almost exactly twenty years ago, she was at a World Cup in Santa Caterina for the first time and drove directly to ninth in the Super-G.
The American Lindsey Vonn moves the jersey before the start.
Vonn surprises from his own performance
This time everything seems possible, Top 30, Top 15, Top 10 or even medals. In any case, Vonn looks much more relaxed with your comeback. She is a little more relaxed, takes a lot of time for her teammates and also treats herself a break when necessary.
Last week she flew to Florida to recover from the strenuous first weeks of her comeback and to celebrate the end of her dog’s chemotherapy. “I try to find the balance, live on my life and to do this crazy thing here”explains Vonn.
For another World Cup and Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, she just briefly pauses her real life, is on a small one “Adventure”. An adventure that runs significantly better than initially assumed.
I actually wanted to ask ORF whether they need a camera driver.
Medal candidate instead of forerunner
“I actually wanted to ask ORF whether they need a camera driver”tells Vern with a smile before the World Cup start. She seems to surprise her successful comeback: “My goal was to be a forerunner this year.” Instead, she is now driving for medals-and could become the oldest World Cup medalist ever.
Vonn and Shiffrin together to gold?
Not only in departure and Super-G, the 40-year-old looks at a sensational precious metal, but also in the new team combination (a technician drives with a speed driver), she carefully pays off, and preferably with teammate Mikaela Shiffrin. 181 World Cup victory would bring this duo with it – more success, more headlines are not possible. It is not yet clear whether Shiffrin will drive the team combination at all. After all, she only returned to the World Cup last week after a serious injury.
No problem for Vonn, which would have a suitable alternative ready: “Paula Moltzan comes from the same small place as me, from Buck Hill, Minnesota. If we both drove together, that would be really cool.”
With who will ultimately start in the new team combination, all eyes will be aimed at you. Because Vonn is not yet finished, she has a clear goal: “I like records, I won’t be lying there. “