40-year-old Lindsey vonn returned to the World Cup after a six-year break. Before the h-moment, the Olympic and World Championship winner suffered from the flu, and the opening sport was in the box as soon as the American hit the gate and drove out.
Vonn fought 15th in the downhill fall.
Vonn ended his career in 2019 because his real knee, who had been injured several times, no longer endured the race. Since then, a partial artificial joint has been operated on the knee, and the titanium knee has made it possible to return to the race.
Vonn has said that he is aiming for next winter’s Olympics in Milano-Cortina. The Yankee star has won numerous World Cup competitions on the Cortina slope.
– It’s his slope. Before that, many, many repetitions are done in really demanding conditions. All you have to do is hope the body lasts. Vonn always dropped before a hundred glasses with big risks. He may have to make a little technology more secure so that new injuries should not Marcus Sandell Inch.
– If he is injured this season or early next season, the game is played. The approach must be smart, but he certainly has people who can limit risk -taking.
Who surprised?
Skier Petra Torvinen competed for the first time in the combined World Cup. He was the last of the first two races in Otepää, Estonia, but ran out in the skier’s complaint on Sunday.
Torvinen, who has been training in ski jumping since 2020, rose from the last, 21st place in skiing. He missed the hill -won German Maria from Gerboth 40 meters, but only reached the track from the back distance.
Finnish head coach Antti Kuisma He believes that the rules of the equalization competition will be changed so that the one will not be possible in the future.
– Soon, in other countries, we start digging big cannons from naphthalene, if this continues.
Kuisma says that Austria, for example, has flashed that it will bring the eighth stay in the World Skiing World Cup to the Combined Games Mika Vermeulenwho is a combined World Cup gold medalist for 2017.
Who floppy?
Estonian Otepää’s narrow and easy-to-profile tracks made it difficult to do male work, especially with men’s combined World Cup ski sections. Finnish top Ilkka Herola He stuck behind the other.
On Saturday, Herola did not get third behind the group in Norway Jens Lurås ofterbron I hit and remained eighth.
– Yes, we’re going to get back to that. How can it happen in that way. I was alone in skiing that nothing could be done. Yes it was frustrating, Herola said.
There would have been power to the solutions, but there was no room.
– Suddenly comes back when you get to the group. You don’t have to do anything about it. At no time did the pace felt hard after that, but then it is. Everybody wants to get there. This is quite a bit.
“I don’t understand how anyone can get interested in such a job and who wants such races,” Herola said on Sunday.
What on earth?
Lauri Vuorinen Siivoki for a clear Finnish championship in the traditional sprint on Saturday in Hakunila, Vantaa before Ristomatti Hakola and Joni Mäki.
The mountains were confused by the hard encouragement of the Hakola track in the finals.
– Yes, they encouraged me too, but it felt like he (Hakola) was behind it. I was wondering when it was over, but fortunately there was a little difference, Vuorinen laughed.
What next?
The Alpine Skiing World Championships will continue with new team combined competitions on Tuesday and Wednesday. In the race form, one athlete calculates the downhill and another slalom, and the team with the fastest combined time wins. Finland will participate in Wednesday men’s competition with two teams.
On Wednesday, the World Biathlon World Championships in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, will also be launched. The first species is a mixed message.
Two weeks ago, the Finnish team fell into the influenza of Anterselva’s World Cup weekend. The effects are still felt, for Venla Lehtonen and Otto Invenius They have to skip the culmination of the season because of health concerns.
Lehtonen told about his situation on Friday, Invenius on Sunday.
Also on Saturday’s a guest of sports studio remotely Tero Seppälä He said he had suffered a severe disease and said that instead of skiing training, energy has gone to recover from the disease.
– For some, the illness quickly passed, but some still have the disease. It will certainly be visible somewhat in the results; Ville Kotikumpu Inch on the weekend.