Lindsey Vonn had the first setback in her strong return to alpine skiing, crashing while on pace for a top-three Super-G finish.

Sitting in the middle of the Cortina course following her second fall in four days at the resort where she once dominated, Lindsey Vonn slammed the snow angrily with her right pole.Then she got up and skied down to the finish — fortunate to have come away mostly unscathed again — and ready to assess the most difficult weekend of her comeback at age 40 with a new titanium knee following nearly six years of retirement.

In her second downhill since coming back from her 2019 World Cup retirement, Lindsey Vonn looked destined for another jaw-dropping result in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Vonn charged the lower half of the Olympia delle