Olympic champion Sofia Goggia wins first downhill of post-Vonn era
Olympic champion Sofia Goggia won the first World Cup downhill of the post-Lindsey Vonn era on Saturday. Goggia was rewarded with her first victory this season after taking an aggressively direct racing line typical of Vonn, the American star who retired after winning downhill bronze ...
Naomi Osaka named 'breakthrough athlete' at World Sport Awards
Naomi Osaka was named the recipient of the Breakthrough of the Year Award at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on Monday for her momentous 2018 season in which she won her first tour and Grand Slam singles titles. "I want to ...
Mikaela Shiffrin, skiing's brightest star, cites Naomi Osaka as inspiration
During her inexorable rise to someday becoming the most successful Alpine skier in history, Mikaela Shiffrin has been shooting some admiring glances at another young female athlete excelling at her chosen sport. And she, too, is emerging from the shadow of an all-time great. "Somebody I've ...
Lindsey Vonn sitting out downhill training after super-G crash
Lindsey Vonn is sitting out downhill training at the world championships following her crash in the super-G. Vonn had the wind knocked out of her after straddling a gate mid-air and hitting the safety nets on Tuesday. She was left with a shiner on her ...
American Lindsey Vonn crashed heavily in the super-G at the Alpine Ski World Championships on Tuesday in what was the penultimate race of her glittering career. She appeared to lose control coming off a jump early in her run and careered into the safety netting ...
Lindsey Vonn's return postponed by heavy snowfall in Austria
Lindsey Vonn's return to World Cup racing will have to wait another week. Heavy snowfall has forced organizers to call off downhill and super-G races scheduled for the Austrian resort of St. Anton this weekend. Vonn was planning to return this week after sitting out the ...
Lindsey Vonn, who is four wins shy of the all-time mark for World Cup race wins, will retire from competition at the end of the 2018-19 season, NBC Sports reported on Thursday. The 33-year-old American, whose 82 World Cup wins trails only Swedish great Ingemar ...
Lindsey Vonn is the downhill favorite, says rival Sofia Goggia
The form book suggests there is little to choose between the world's top two women downhill skiers ahead of Wednesday's Olympic race at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre. But Italian Sofia Goggia believes her rival, 2010 gold-medal winner Lindsey Vonn, starts as the woman to beat. "Maybe ...
It's exactly what Lindsey Vonn was hoping for — a dominant victory one month before she goes for gold at the Olympics. Vonn amped up her preparations for the Pyeongchang Games by winning a World Cup downhill by a large margin Saturday, while Italian rival ...
Swiss skier Lara Gut is set for an early return from a knee injury and plans to compete in Saturday's World Cup giant slalom. Initially working toward a comeback in late November, the 2016 overall champion posted on her Facebook page: "Hey, see you tomorrow ...
Lindsey Vonn's request to race against men in a World Cup downhill will be studied again by the International Ski Federation (FIS) next week. The United States team will make the formal proposal at pre-season meetings hosted by FIS in Zurich, the governing body announced ...
Vonn stumbles out of Super-G on first day at world championships
Lindsey Vonn's first run-out at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships lasted just a few seconds on Tuesday when the American slid out of the Super-G. Starting 11th, Vonn was as good as her word, having said last weekend she was going to go all ...
