American Lindsey Vonn became the oldest skiing downhill World Cup winner at St Moritz on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old retired from the sport<\/a> in February 2019 due to knee problems but made her competitive return<\/a> in December 2024.<\/p>\n Vonn has won one gold and two bronze at the Winter Olympics and is on track to represent the USA at the 2026 Games in February.<\/p>\n She crossed the line in one minute and 29.63 seconds – nearly a second quicker than second-placed Magdelena Egger – to wrap up her 83rd World Cup win and first since 2018.<\/p>\n “I knew I was skiing fast but you never know until the first race,” Vonn told TNT Sports. <\/p>\n “I think I was a little faster than I expected. It’s a very exciting time.”<\/p>\n Vonn has four overall World Cup titles in the bank from a glittering career that has spanned across 20 years.<\/p>\n Friday’s event marked the beginning of the downhill World Cup campaign, with a further eight races set to take place before the World Cup Finals at Kvitfjell in Norway on 21 March.<\/p>\n Vonn returns to the St Moritz slope for the next World Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Lindsey Vonn became the oldest skiing downhill World Cup winner at St Moritz on Friday. The 41-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-187936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}