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Lindsey Vonn wrapped up her second straight profitable downhill coaching run Saturday and seems able to go for gold on the Milano-Cortina Olympics on the age of 41 on Sunday, little greater than per week after rupturing the ACL of her left knee.

The American crossed in third place, 0.37 seconds behind chief and teammate Breezy Johnson, and pumped her fist after seeing the consequence.

“All good,” Vonn informed The Related Press.

Aksel Lund Svindal, the 2018 Olympic downhill champion from Norway who now coaches Vonn, stated she was “very calm” after her run “and did not speak concerning the knee in any respect.”

“After which I did not wish to ask, both, as a result of I figured that is an excellent signal,” Svindal stated. “When she’s calm signifies that she looks like she has it underneath management. She is aware of that she’ll need to push more durable tomorrow as a result of the remainder of the women will and it is the Olympic downhill — you are not going to get away with a medal there except you push exhausting. I feel she’s prepared for that.”

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American Lindsey Vonn completes her second straight profitable downhill coaching run and can compete for gold on the Milano-Cortina Olympics on Sunday, little greater than per week after rupturing the ACL of her left knee.

Nonetheless, Vonn has been favouring her proper leg whereas touchdown jumps throughout coaching, which has put her off stability at instances.

“Attempt to have much less of that tomorrow if we are able to,” Svindal stated. “It is the landings that harm probably the most.”

Vonn is competing with a big brace masking her injured knee. She had a partial titanium substitute inserted in her proper knee in 2024 after which returned to ski racing final season after almost six years of retirement. She crashed in the course of the ultimate World Cup downhill earlier than the Olympics, elevating the chance that she would finish not simply her season however her profession.

As an alternative, she has been steadfast in saying she would ski on the Olympics if in any respect doable and, after a coaching run was canceled Thursday, hit the Olympia delle Tofana downhill course on Friday and Saturday with the opposite racers. She positioned eleventh in Thursday’s coaching, although the instances imply little because the athletes don’t all the time go their hardest.

Svindal famous that Vonn’s brace negatively impacts her aerodynamics, however added, “We’re not specializing in that as a result of if she begins to ask to take the brace away I feel there’s a few medical doctors that might have one thing to say about that. Please do not ask her that query.”

Vonn holds the file of 12 World Cup wins in Cortina.