American skiing icon Lindsey Vonn is providing a sneak peek into her body’s amazing transformation as she prepares to compete in her sixth Olympic Winter Games.
Vonn, 41, has not taken the slopes in Olympic competition since the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea.
She also hadn’t competed in skiing since 2019 before announcing her second career comeback in 2024.
Now, with the 2025-26 FIS World Cup season underway, Vonn is in prime condition as she’ll hope to compete in February’s games held at Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy.
‘Physically, I’m in possibly the best shape I’ve ever been in,’ Vonn said this week ahead of her first race of the year on the slopes of St. Moritz in Switzerland.
‘And my body doesn’t hurt, so that’s the best part of all.’
Lindsey Vonn revealed that she put in heavy work over the summer to train for the Olympics
Vonn joked that thanks to her hard work, ‘my body doesn’t hurt, so that’s the best part of all’
Over the summer, Vonn committed to re-building her strength in the offseason she felt she lacked in her 2024-25 return season.
‘My goal was to get a lot stronger this summer,’ she said. ‘I was thinner than I would have liked last season. I was still quite a bit lighter than I was when I was racing in my prime.’
However, after ‘a lot of hard work’, Vonn says she was ‘able to gain about 12 pounds’ over her offseason.
‘I was probably the most disciplined I’ve ever been with my diet and just how I approached the entire summer,’ said the three-time Olympic medalist.
‘I put everything I had into being as physically prepared as possible.’
The comeback season’s crowning moment came this past March in Sun Valley, Idaho – when Vonn nabbed silver in the Super-G during the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals.
A triumphant Vonn said at the time: ‘It’s been a rough season of people saying that I can’t, that I’m too old, that I’m not good enough anymore. I think I proved everyone wrong.’
Vonn – who was previously romantically involved with athletes like Tiger Woods and NHL star PK Subban – will now look to qualify for her sixth Olympic games with five upcoming ‘speed weekends’ in the run up to Cortina, beginning February 8.
The 41-year-old Vonn will hit the slopes at St. Moritz this weekend – one of five final ‘speed weekends’ heading into the Olympics at Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy
After this weekend at St. Mortiz, she heads to Val d’Isere in France, Zauchensee in Austria, Tarvisio in Italy and then finally back to Switzerland at Crans-Montana.
Vonn has won at all of those pistes across her lengthy and decorated World Cup career.
She aims to compete in three events at the Olympics: the newly-introduced team combined, the Super-G and the downhill – the event where she won Gold at the 2010 Vancouver games and bronze in 2018.
There are multiple ways she can qualify, but the easiest would be placing within the top-30 on the World Cup points list for any of those skiing disciplines.