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Lindsey Vonn did not pick a lane. She wore both. In the latest frames making the rounds from her end-of-summer photo dump, the Olympic champion goes from an elegant black gown to a puffer vest without breaking the mood. One look is red-carpet. The other is the mountain. Fans are treating the switch as the whole point: she is crushing both aesthetics in the same scroll. The gown is the version of Vonn the fashion circuit already knows. This year that has meant a black sequined Gucci column at the ESPYs, a fitted black Gucci midi at Milan Fashion Week,…

LLindsey Vonn did not post a training update. She posted a goodbye. On Thursday the American ski icon dropped “Photo dump pt 2” with a caption that did the heavy lifting: “I guess this means summer is over….but it also means my birthday is coming up soon 👀.” Summer, officially, is over. The countdown to Oct. 18 is not. The timing is the story. Eight months after a crash that nearly ended more than a racing career, Vonn is closing an off-season she was never supposed to spend on red carpets, tennis courts, and vacation hard-launches — and opening the…

Twelve years after she became the youngest Olympic slalom champion in history, Mikaela Shiffrin stood at the bottom of a Cortina hill and did the thing the sport had been waiting on since Beijing. She won the slalom. She won it by a mile. And she made herself the only American alpine skier ever to hold three Olympic gold medals. The date was February 18, 2026. The combined time was 1:39.10. The margin was 1.50 seconds over Switzerland’s Camille Rast — the largest gap in any Olympic alpine event since 1998. Sweden’s Anna Swenn-Larsson took bronze. Shiffrin had opened a…

Summer did what summer always does to a ski racer. It ran out. For Lindsey Vonn, the line lands heavier than a calendar flip. The off-season that was supposed to be recovery, reflection, and a quiet inventory of memories is already giving way to the next World Cup winter — and she is still deciding what, exactly, those memories add up to. They add up to a lot. Vonn came out of a retirement that had lasted nearly six years, knee replacement behind her, and immediately looked like the skier who once owned the speed events. She stacked seven podiums…

Lindsey Vonn is not clicking into a start gate this weekend. She is still rebuilding a leg doctors once fought to save. And yet, on Wednesday night, U.S. Ski & Snowboard put her name on the 2026–27 World Cup squad anyway — the latest, loudest signal that the most stubborn comeback in alpine skiing is not over. Call it what the internet already wants to call it. Captain America is back in action, even if the shield is still in the shop. The 41-year-old — she turns 42 on October 18 — was one of 17 athletes named to the…

Mikaela Shiffrin has made it official. The skier who has spent 16 years turning slalom into a private kingdom will race less of it this winter. She confirmed the plan this week on her podcast, What’s the Point, and in her own statement: fewer slalom starts in 2026–27, more of the season built around giant slalom and super-G. She is calling it an exploration season. She is not calling it a goodbye. “I’m planning to race less slalom this season. Not necessarily no slalom,” she said. Killington, Vermont, over Thanksgiving weekend is the first slalom on her card. The early…

Mikaela Shiffrin is not stepping back. She is stepping sideways — and she wants the sport to understand the difference. The most decorated slalom skier in history used her podcast, What’s the Point, and a statement this week to lay out a 2026–27 plan she is calling an “exploration season.” After 16 years on the World Cup, nine slalom crystal globes and a second Olympic slalom gold in Milan-Cortina, she will race less of the discipline that made her a household name and put more of her training into giant slalom and super-G. “I’m not trying to do less because…

Mikaela Shiffrin has spent 16 years rewriting the record books. This winter, the winningest alpine skier in history says the books were never the point. Mikaela Shiffrin at the 2026 Olympics: The secret to her thrilling slalom victory. “The joy for me has never been about medals or records,” the 31-year-old American said Tuesday, announcing what she is calling an “exploration season.” Less slalom. More giant slalom and super-G. Not a retreat. A dare. “I’m not trying to do less because I care less,” Shiffrin said. “I’m trying to do something different because I still care SO much.” The timing…

Whistler still hears that clock. On February 17, 2010, Lindsey Vonn did not just win the Olympic women’s downhill. She buried a shin injury, chased a teammate who was already in the lead, and stopped the clock at 1:44.19 — a number skiing has refused to let go of. She was 25. She was the favorite. She was also the skier who had barely been able to train in the two weeks before the Games. A deep shin bruise had turned every turn into a negotiation. Radio chatter at the start told her Julia Mancuso had just thrown down a…

Mikaela Shiffrin is not quitting slalom. She is refusing to live inside it. On Tuesday, the three-time Olympic champion said she will race less of her signature event this winter and build the season around giant slalom and super-G instead. She called the campaign an exploration. The first slalom on the calendar, she said, is Killington. “I’m planning to race less slalom this season. Not necessarily no slalom,” Shiffrin said. “Right now, the plan is Killington as my first slalom and potentially a few others throughout the season.” The timing is the story. Shiffrin, 31, just came off a year…