Lindsey Vonn's unlikely bid to get back to the top of skiing started this weekend, with four races in Colorado she used as "training."

Lindsey Vonn deemed her first comeback races a success and is already planning the next steps of her return to Alpine skiing competition. Vonn, who retired in 2019 at age 34 due to the physical toll of accumulated ski racing injuries,

Vonn left the tour with 82 World Cup wins, which was the record for a woman at the time and within reach of the all-time Alpine mark of 86 held by Swedish standout Ingemar Stenmark. The women's record held by Vonn was eclipsed in January 2023 by Mikaela Shiffrin, who now has 99 wins — more than any alpine ski racer in the history of the sport.