Lindsey Vonn will open the Olympic season at her most successful venue — Lake Louise, Alberta, the first weekend of December.
The 2010 Olympic downhill champion will not race earlier World Cup giant slaloms in Austria in October and Killington, Vt., on Thanksgiving weekend, she said from a preseason camp in Chile on Thursday.
Instead, Vonn will wait to enter the first speed races (downhill, super-G) at Lake Louise, where she has won 18 times in 41 World Cup starts.
That’s no surprise.
Vonn, 32, has focused on speed events in recent injury-shortened seasons as she chases the World Cup wins record of 86 held by retired Swede Ingemar Stenmark.