Shiffrin spent the month of December recovering from an injury. This week, she took a few ski laps, but her reintroduction to the World Cup is still pending.

Comeback queen Lindsey Vonn produced a fine sixth on her World Cup downhill return as Italian veteran Federica Brignone continued her superb ... Her mark has since been eclipsed by fellow American Mikaela Shiffrin's 99. Vonn, the 2010 Olympic downhill ...

US ski star Lindsey Vonn was an impressive sixth in her first World Cup downhill in almost six years on Saturday, with Federica Brignone winning the race in Austria's St Anton for a first downhill success.

US ski star Lindsey Vonn was an impressive sixth in her first World Cup downhill in almost six years on Saturday, with Federica Brignone winning the race in Austria's St Anton for a first downhill success.

Lindsey Vonn told The Associated Press on Thursday that she plans to retire again after next year’s Olympics, when women’s skiing will be held in Cortina.

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Sitting in the middle of the Cortina course following her second fall in four days at the resort where she once dominated, Lindsey Vonn slammed the snow angrily with her right pole.

Swiss Olympic champions Lara Gut-Behrami and Corinne Suter placed fourth and fifth, respectively, and defending downhill World Cup champion Cornelia Huetter placed sixth. Jacqueline Wiles in seventh was the top American finisher.

The party at St. Anton’s Krazy Kanguruh après-ski bar lasted into the early hours of Monday morning when the U.S. Ski Team’s newest standout celebrated her first World Cup victory last weekend.

Italian skier Federica Brignone has fallen in the first ... Cup history at Semmering in Austria last weekend. The injured Mikaela Shiffrin didn't race.

Vonn finished 1.68 behind Goggia. The American standout returned to the circuit last month when she finished 14th in a super-G in St. Moritz. Then she placed sixth and fourth in a downhill and a super-G, respectively, in St. Anton, Austria, last weekend.