Lindsey Vonn and Roger Federer have been good friends for a long time.Bild: PHOTOPRESS
Lindsey Vonn is training again with the American ski team. In an interview with the New York Times, the 82-time World Cup winner tells what Roger Federer has to do with the comeback.
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On Thursday, Lindsey Vonn announced that she wanted to return to the Ski World Cup. We reported on it. The 40-year-old American ended her career in 2019 and only had an artificial knee inserted this spring.
Her goal is to make her comeback this season – maybe even next month. The races in their home country are scheduled for mid-December. There is a downhill and a super-G in Beaver Creek.
Lindsey Vonn announces she’s back on the US ski team.
In the New York Times, Vonn reported that a conversation with tennis legend Roger Federer got her thinking. As the American shared, Federer said something very formative for Vonn:
“He said, ‘I squeezed every drop I had out of the lemon. There was nothing left I could give.”
These words gave the 2010 Olympic downhill champion a lot to think about, as she herself said: “I felt like I had done that in my career. I tried as hard as I could.”
Vonn won the Crystal Globe four times in her career.Bild: KEYSTONE
But now Lindsey Vonn has realized that she has recovered enough and also feels enough motivation for the comeback. At the end of the New York Times article, the four-time overall World Cup winner said:
“I feel like my lemon has more juice now.”
How much juice really is in Vonn will be shown on the racetrack. After Marcel Hirscher’s comeback, it would be the second big return this winter. (riz)
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Lindsey Vonn is training again with the American ski team. In an interview with the New York Times, the 82-time World Cup winner tells what Roger Federer has to do with the comeback.
On Thursday, Lindsey Vonn announced that she wanted to return to the Ski World Cup. We reported on it. The 40-year-old American ended her career in 2019 and only had an artificial knee inserted this spring.
