ST. ANTON, Austria (AP) — Ski great Lindsey Vonn was 10th fastest in a training run on Thursday for her first World Cup downhill in six years.
Three weeks after her World Cup comeback with a titanium knee at age 40 in a super-G, Vonn completed the two-kilometer Karl Schranz course 2.55 seconds behind Federica Brignone of Italy.
The United States star was clocked at close to 109 kph (68 mph) at a fast section of the hill where she won a downhill in December 2007.
A second practice is planned on Friday before the race on Saturday.
Vonn has won 43 World Cup downhills — a record for men and women — among her 82 career wins that is third on the all-time list. Mikaela Shiffrin, who is recovering after a crash in giant slalom last month, has 99 and Ingemar Stenmark won 86 in the 1970s and ’80s.
Vonn retired in February 2019 after the world championships in Sweden. Her surprise comeback is building back to a return in her favored downhill event.
She placed 14th with a cautious run in the super-G on Dec. 21 at St. Moritz, Switzerland, and a scheduled second race was canceled by poor weather.
A super-G at St. Anton is scheduled for Sunday.
Vonn also should compete next week at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, — the women's course for the 2026 Olympics, where she won six downhills and six super-Gs — and aims to qualify for the world championships next month in Saalbach, Austria.
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Alpine ski great United States Lindsey Vonn watches the 10km women's mass start race of the Tour de Ski cross country, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here is Thursday’s schedule for the final day of rites honoring Jimmy Carter, the 39th president, who died Dec. 29. All times are Eastern:
9 a.m. — Carter's casket departs the U.S. Capitol. The funeral motorcade travels to Washington National Cathedral.
9:30 a.m. — Carter’s motorcade arrives at Washington National Cathedral.
10 a.m. — The Washington funeral begins. Expected speakers include Steve Ford, reading remarks written by his father, former President Gerald Ford, before his death; Ted Mondale, reading remarks from his father, former Vice President Walter Mondale, before his death; former Carter adviser Stu Eizenstat; Jason Carter, one of Jimmy Carter's grandsons; and President Joe Biden.
11:15 a.m. — Carter’s remains and his family depart the cathedral for Joint Base Andrews.
11:45 a.m. — They board Special Air Mission 39, the plane that serves as Air Force One when the sitting president is on board.
2 p.m. — Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Lawson Army Airfield at Fort Moore, Georgia. Carter’s remains will be transferred with ceremony to the hearse. Carter and his family then travel to Plains by motorcade.
3:30 p.m. — Motorcade arrives at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.
3:45 p.m. — An invitation-only funeral at the church begins.
4:45 p.m. — A motorcade takes participants from the church to the Carter residence.
5:20 p.m. — A U.S. Navy missing man formation conducts a flyover in honor of Carter’s naval service and time as commander in chief, followed by a private graveside ceremony and interment.
The story has been updated to correct that Carter’s grandson, not son, will speak at his Washington funeral.
A joint services body bearer team carries the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, to head to Washington National Cathedral for a State Funeral. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)
President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump pause at the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter as he lies in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via AP)
