VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Olympic champion Anna Veith won her first race since suffering a serious knee injury more than two years ago when she took the Super G at Val d'Isere on Sunday while American Lindsey Vonn withdrew due to a sore knee. She missed the whole of the 2015-16 season after suffering a serious knee injury and only returned to racing one year ago. Vonn's win in Saturday's Super G was her first since the downhill at Garmisch in January. The finest woman skier of her generation, Vonn was downhill gold medallist at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 but missed the 2014 games in Sochi because of a knee injury. The 33-year-old was also sidelined for 11 months after suffering a knee injury in Andorra in February, 2016 and broke her arm in training in Colorado the following November.

Source: The Star December 17, 2017 10:52 UTC