Lindsey Vonn said she is “good” and has only a few bruises after falling toward the end of a World Cup downhill training run on Thursday. The protective air bag that most downhill skiers wear inflated under Vonn's racing suit to help soften her fall.

Lindsey Vonn is planning to race this weekend in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy despite having crashed in Thursday’s downhill training run. The 40-year-old spoke to FIS Media on Friday morning about the incident,

Lindsey Vonn placed a pleasantly surprising sixth in her first World Cup downhill in six years and her second World Cup race overall since unretiring this season at age 40. Vonn, the 2010 Olympic downhill gold medalist, finished 58 hundredths of a second behind Italian Federica Brignone.