""This felt like race day to me," her coach Aksel Lund Svindal said Friday. "You know her history. She's gone hard at times when people have told her she probably shouldn't be in the start gate.""
""Because I push the limits, I crash, and I've been injured more times than I would like to admit -- to myself, even,""
Heavy snowfall canceled Thursday's downhill training and fog delayed Friday's practice more than 90 minutes. Vonn pushed out of a start gate for the first time this Olympics, skied smoothly and confidently, led through most of the course, then made a couple of errors over the rollers and finished with the 11th-best time. Three days earlier she announced she would compete despite completely tearing the ACL in her left knee. Completing a training run served as proof of fitness for competition. Vonn's career features repeated injuries and comebacks across multiple Olympics, and she accepts crash risk from pushing limits while returning strong and pain-free this season.
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