{"id":2438693,"date":"2019-02-01T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=296811"},"modified":"2019-02-01T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:22:34","slug":"lindsey-vonn-says-she-will-retire-from-skiing-after-competing-in-the-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/lindsey-vonn-says-she-will-retire-from-skiing-after-competing-in-the-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn says she will retire from skiing after competing in the World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindsey Vonn has only two races remaining on her aching knees.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s all-time leader in World Cup wins announced Friday that she will retire from ski racing after this month\u2019s world championships in Sweden.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old Vonn had been planning to retire in December but changed her plans because of persistent pain in both of her knees, which she fully realized after failing to finish a race in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo, Italy, last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been an emotional 2 weeks making the hardest decision of my life, but I have accepted that I cannot continue ski racing,\u201d\u00a0Vonn wrote on Instagram<\/a>\u00a0. \u201cI will compete at the World Championships in Downhill and SG (super-G) next week in Are, Sweden and they will be the final races of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

The worlds open with the women\u2019s super-G on Tuesday. The women\u2019s downhill is scheduled for Feb. 10.<\/p>\n

Vonn\u2019s right knee is permanently damaged from previous crashes. The American has also torn ACLs, suffered fractures near her left knee, broken her ankle, sliced her right thumb, had a concussion and more. She\u2019s limited now to about three runs per day, and her aching body can\u2019t handle the workload of other skiers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy body is broken beyond repair and it isn\u2019t letting me have the final season I dreamed of,\u201d Vonn said. \u201cMy body is screaming at me to STOP and it\u2019s time for me to listen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Retiring in Sweden brings Vonn full circle.<\/p>\n

She won the first two major championship medals of her career \u2014 two silvers \u2014 at the 2007 worlds in the Swedish resort of Are. Vonn has also won seven World Cup races in Are, including two giant slaloms, and has 12 podiums overall.<\/p>\n

At last season\u2019s World Cup finals in Are, Vonn won the downhill and finished third in the super-G.<\/p>\n

However, with 82 World Cup wins, Vonn will not be able to match the overall record of 86 held by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, retiring isn\u2019t what upsets me. Retiring without reaching my goal is what will stay with me forever,\u201d Vonn said. \u201cHowever, I can look back at 82 World Cup wins, 20 World Cup titles, 3 Olympic medals, 7 World Championship medals and say that I have accomplished something that no other woman in HISTORY has ever done, and that is something that I will be proud of FOREVER!\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lindsey Vonn has only two races remaining on her aching knees. The women\u2019s all-time leader in World Cup wins announced Friday that she will retire from ski racing after this month\u2019s world championships in Sweden. The 34-year-old Vonn had been planning to retire in December but changed her plans because of persistent pain in both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2438693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 01:43:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}