Vonn nears return to training
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Lindsey Vonn is about to start training in Europe as she prepares for a possible return from right knee surgery at next week’s World Cup opener.
US Ski Team women’s head coach Alex Hoedlmoser said Vonn planned to train on snow this week in Soelden, Austria.
The opening race of the season is the giant slalom on October 26 in Soelden.
“If she feels like she can podium then she’s probably going to (race),” Hoedlmoser said. “But if not, if she doesn’t feel like she’s 100 percent, we’re going to give here those weeks off until the US races (late November).”
The coach added it’s “a day-by-day decision.”
Vonn shredded her anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in a crash at the world championships in Schladming, Austria, last February. The original timetable didn’t even have the reigning Olympic downhill champion in ski boots until November, but when the US team traveled to Portillo, Chile, for its training camp in August, Vonn was there.
“We’re going to continue on where we left off in Chile and see how things go,” Hoedlmoser said. “Everything started out pretty promising. We just got to go into this training block and see how she’s doing.”
Vonn said earlier that starting in Soelden was “definitely a possibility.”
Vonn’s best events are downhill and super-G. A giant slalom race would represent a major test for her surgically repaired leg. Still. Hoedlmoser was impressed with what he saw in Portillo.
“You do an on-snow progression with injured athletes and you see how much you can push that,” he said. “By the end of the camp she was skiing super-G and GS like nothing really happened.”
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