Skiing great Vonn to come out of retirement at 40

Three-time Olympic skiing medallist Lindsey Vonn is returning to the athletics much than 5 years aft her retirement.

The American, 40, retired successful February 2019 but has announced her competitory comeback having had palmy genu country successful April.

In an interview with the BBC successful July, she admitted status was "harder than I expected it to be" and "nothing tin capable the spread of skis racing".

Vonn won Olympic downhill golden astatine the Winter Games successful Vancouver successful 2010, wherever she besides took bronze successful the Super-G. She claimed different downhill bronze successful Pyeongchang successful 2018.

She made her World Cup debut aged 16 successful 2000 and went connected to triumph 20 World Cup titles (including 4 wide Crystal Globes) and 8 World Championship medals, with 137 World Cup podiums and 82 World Cup victories.

But she struggled with injuries passim her vocation which forced her to miss parts of respective seasons, including astir each of the 2013 and 2014 Olympic season.

"Getting backmost to skiing without symptom has been an unthinkable journey," said Vonn who whitethorn look to people a spot connected the US squad for the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Milan-Cortina.

"I americium looking guardant to being backmost with the squad and to proceed to stock my cognition of the athletics with these unthinkable women."