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After missing the 2022 Olympics, Lindsey Vonn is back where she belongs.
The 41-year-old was on the 97-member U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team roster (50 women and 47 men) to officially complete her Olympic comeback.
Vonn did not compete in the 2022 Games in Beijing due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury, but she returned last season after a partial knee replacement and quickly began to show the form that made her a four-time world champion.
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Lindsey Vonn of Team USA in action during the women’s downhill at the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup on January 10, 2026 in Zauchensee, Austria. (Millo Moravski/Zoom Agency/Getty Images)
She has won two World Cup downhill races this season – to take her career total to 84 – and will be one of the favorites in the two speed events in Cortina. Vonn picked up a win earlier this month.
Vonn returned to skiing after being retired for six years and said she could be in the best shape of her career despite having a partial knee replacement. With each victory, Vonn extends his record as the oldest race winner in the 60-season history of the World Cup circuit. His 84th career victory on the tour was his record 45th downhill race.
Vonn won her only gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. She also won a bronze medal in the super-G that year and another in the downhill in Pyeongchang eight years ago.
Lindsey Vonn, right, reacts after receiving her bronze medal in the women’s downhill on Wednesday in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Mikaela Shiffrin also made her fourth Olympic team, and Chloe Kim will be vying for her third gold medal in as many Games.
Shiffrin is trying to bounce back after going 0 for 6 in her attempt to medal four years ago. She won gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Games and gold in giant slalom four years later in South Korea. She won this season in slalom, winning six races.
Mikaela Shiffrin of Team USA wins first place during the women’s slalom at the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup on January 21, 2024 in Jasna, Slovakia. (Paul Brechu/Zoom Agency/Getty Images)
Kim has won each of her gold medals in the halfpipe, an event in which she also has three world championships to her name. She also won eight X Games gold medals in SuperPipe.
