Lindsey Vonn is battling a cold: Is her World Cup comeback in danger?

Lindsey Vonn is battling a cold: Is her World Cup comeback in danger?

A dramatic comeback for ski legend Lindsey Vonn is on the horizon! Just 20 hours before the Super-G start at the World Championships in Saalbach, the 40-year-old shocked her fans with a worrying Instagram post. She's sick in bed, with a bad cold and using an inhaler as she shares her discomfort with a sniffly emoji. In her emotional update, she admits, "I caught a bad cold, or the flu..." and assures her followers that the "fighter in me is still there" and she won't be canceling the race. In the morning she had to struggle with unsatisfactory performance in the second downhill training and was 3.13 seconds behind the leader, which catapulted her to 29th place the Crown reported.

In the competition itself, which took place in the afternoon, German skier Kira Weidle-Winkelmann showed a remarkable performance and came sixth in adverse visibility conditions, 1.27 seconds behind. Her teammate, 21-year-old Emma Aicher, crossed the finish line in 17th place and also delivered a strong race result. The third starter, Anna Schillinger, retired after a driving error, while the American young rider Lauren Macuga surprisingly celebrated her first World Cup victory, ahead of the Austrian Stephanie Venier and the Italian Federica Brignone. Lindsey Vonn was full of optimism despite her cold. "I feel very confident. My material is getting better every day," she said at the Eurosport microphone and challenged herself to optimize the last percentage points in her performance, which she did Eurosport reported.