Lindsey Vonn is getting quite comfortable on the medals podium again.
Vonn won a bronze medal for a second consecutive day, this time in the super-G at the World Cup in Val d'Isere, France. Her time of 1:20.60 was 0.36 seconds behind her good friend, Italy's Sofia Goggia. Alice Robinson of New Zealand, who won the season's first super-G last weekend, was second.
Of her five races so far this season, Vonn has made the podium four times. Go back to last season, and it's five podiums in six races. Vonn was the silver medalist in super-G at the World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Idaho.
This kind of consistent excellence was the standard for much of Vonn's career. She has83 World Cup wins, behind only Mikaela Shiffrin and Ingemar Stenmark, and had double-digit podium finishes seven times between 2008 and 2016. (She missed most of the 2014 season after a crash.)
But injuries took their toll, and Vonn was forced to retire in 2019. After a partial knee replacement in the spring of 2024, Vonn returned to the World Cup circuit, determined to end her career on her terms.
She made the podium once last season, at the World Cup finals. But with an entire off-season to train and fine-tune her equipment, Vonn is now back to her old self. And back on the podium on a regular basis.
Lindsey Vonn on and off the slopes
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Lindsey Vonn third in super-G, her second podium in as many days
