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Lindsey Vonn suffered a back injury during a World Cup super-G race on Saturday in St. Moritz, Switzerland, that required treatment and left her in "extreme pain."

Vonn tweeted about her injury afterward:

Per the Associated Press (for ESPN), Vonn managed to finish her run one second behind the race leader, but she was in obvious pain and dropped to the ground immediately afterward.

Vonn would ultimately finish in 24th place, and after one hour of on-course treatment, she left without speaking to reporters. Her father did tell the Associated Press she was "OK."

Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather leads the overall discipline after finishing third, while overall leader Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States placed 20th. Vonn is currently ranked 34th, per the FIS' official website. 

Vonn is a four-time overall World Cup winner and downhill specialist, but injuries have held her back in recent years, and she hasn't won a super-G season title since 2015.

Downhill skier David Poisson died at the age of 35 after a training crash Monday.

CBC News reported the news and cited the French Ski Federation, noting the crash occurred at Nakiska Ski Area in Alberta while Poisson and the French Alpine ski team were preparing for upcoming World Cup races in North America.

Poisson captured the bronze medal in downhill at the 2013 world championships.

Many in the skiing community expressed their grief following the news:

The International Ski Federation also released a statement about Poisson's death, offering "its sincerest condolences to the teammates, friends and loved ones" of Poisson and pointing to his list of accomplishments since he debuted in 2004, including his bronze medal in 2013 and a podium finish at the 2015 World Cup downhill.

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association will go in front of the International Ski Federation to argue for allowing Lindsey Vonn to compete against men at an FIS World Cup event, ESPN.com's Wayne Drehs reported.

In June, FIS race director Atle Skaardal expressed skepticism that the federation would grant the request, per USA Today's Scott Gleeson:

"It will be a very difficult challenge to find a reasonable way of doing this because one point that everyone is underestimating is that we need to have equal rights for everyone. So if the ladies are allowed to race with the men, then also the men need to be authorized to ski with the ladies, and I'm not sure this is a direction we want to go. I see it as a very difficult topic.... I'm confident that everyone will think this through."

Vonn earned gold and bronze medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics as well as seven medals—including two golds—through the years at the Alpine World Ski Championships. With 77 wins on the World Cup circuit, she also trails Ingemar Stenmark by nine victories for the all-time mark.

In a January interview with the Denver Post's John Meyer, Vonn explained she sees competing against men as a symbolic achievement.

"I know I'm not going to win, but I would like to at least have the opportunity to try," she said. "I think I've won enough World Cups where I should have enough respect within the industry to be able to have that opportunity."

The FIS previously denied Vonn the chance to compete on the men's circuit in November 2012. The 32-year-old will have a little more urgency behind her renewed push, since she plans to retire during the 2018-19 racing season.

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Mikaela Shiffrin claimed her third straight slalom world title at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Switzerland on Saturday. 

If her performance is any indication, Shiffrin could be a force to be reckoned with at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. 

According to NBC Sports' Nick Zaccardi, Shiffrin became the first woman since 1939 to capture three straight slalom world titles thanks to a triumph on Saturday. 

She achieved that feat in dominant fashion with a 1.64-second margin of victory. Citing ski-db.com, Zaccardi noted the 1.64-second margin was the biggest at a women's event since 1970. 

In addition to her slalom gold in St. Moritz, Shiffrin also took home silver in the giant slalom as she prepares for what could be a career-defining run in Pyeongchang. 

Already the defending Olympic gold medalist in women's slalom following a stellar showing in Sochi three years ago, Shiffrin told reporters in Feb. 2014 that she aspired to win five golds in her next Olympics. 

"I don't think it's jinxing it, it's not arrogant," Shiffrin said at the time, according to the San Jose Mercury News' Elliott Almond. "It's just the fact: I think I can."

With confidence and the results to back it up, the 21-year-old should be one of the most compelling skiers to watch as the countdown to 2018 begins.  

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Lindsey Vonn is back on the slopes and building her confidence day by day.

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Lindsey Vonn got back in the win column Saturday by placing first in a downhill ski event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, for victory No. 77 in her illustrious career.

The Associated Press (via ESPN) reported the triumph came in just her second official event back from a knee injury and a broken arm. It also left her just seven wins behind Ingemar Stenmark's all-time record.

Afterward, the 32-year-old American admitted there was some risk involved with returning to competition action so quickly after the health woes, according to the AP.

"I just got to the bottom and I cried," she said. "I worked really hard to come back. I feel like sometimes I come back so quickly. Everyone forgets how much time and energy and blood, sweat and tears it takes to come back without any training and just jump in there."

Vonn added: "I had to trust myself and my team and my technician and we all did our best and today was just amazing. I'm so happy that it only took me two races to get back on the top step."

She also posted a celebratory message on social media:

It was a narrow victory. She beat out Switzerland's Lara Gut, who's currently second in the World Cup standings, by 15 hundredths of a second. In all, five competitors finished within one second of her winning time (1:43.41), per FIS-SKI.com.

Vonn missed just over two months with the latest physical setbacks. She's dealt with numerous injuries in recent years, including a knee problem that caused her to miss the 2014 Winter Olympics after winning two medals at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

When healthy, she's continued to prove herself as one of the sport's top contenders. The four-time World Cup champion finished second in the overall standings in 2016 and won the downhill title.

Now Vonn's task is making it through the rest of the year without any additional health issues. The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, are less than 13 months away, and missing a second straight Games is the worst-case scenario at this stage of her career.

After just over two months on the shelf with a broken arm, Lindsey Vonn announced her return to competitive skiing on Jan. 11. 

As seen in the following Facebook post, Vonn revealed she underwent surgery nine weeks ago and that she suffered nerve damage in addition to breaking her humerus, but she is comfortable enough to get back on the slopes:

According to the Associated Press (h/t NBC Sports), Vonn finished 13th in her first race in 322 days, a World Cup downhill won by Austrian Christine Scheyer in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, on Sunday.

"I felt like I was skiing pretty well, just maybe not quite on the limit yet," Vonn said per the AP. "It's not really a matter of the results. It's a matter of just being happy to be racing again. Of course I had higher expectations of myself, but considering the conditions and the fact that we had a training run and the race today, I think it was pretty good."

The 32-year-old veteran has dealt with a myriad of injuries in recent years, including a knee ailment that kept her out of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Vonn bounced back to win both the super-G and downhill World Cup titles in 2015 and her eighth downhill World Cup title in 2016, although her 2016 season was cut short because of a knee fracture.

Vonn holds the all-time World Cup record with 20 overall titles, but Olympic success has largely eluded her, with just two medals to her credit from 2010 in Vancouver.

With the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, just over one year away, a strong 2017 campaign is paramount for Vonn in terms of positioning herself for some runs at gold.

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