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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;U.S. Olympic alpine skier Lindsey Vonn returned to the slopes Thursday for the first time since re-injuring her knee in December 2013.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vonn announced in January that she would not be competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi because of the injury.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In February 2013, Vonn tore her ACL&amp;nbsp;and MCL at the World Championships. She said she would be ready in time for the Olympics, but in November she sustained a partial tear in the same ACL before returning and injuring it again one month later.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;IOC won\u2019t reopen 2022 Winter Olympic bid race&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vonn won a gold and bronze medal at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, becoming the first American woman to win the gold in the downhill competition.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The skier also is one of just two women to win four World Cup Championships, and she&amp;nbsp;won gold in the Downhill and Super G at the 2009 World Championships.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vonn posted a photo on her Instagram Thursday with the following caption: \"After a looong 9 months I'm back on snow!! It was definitely worth the wait!! cool videos to come :) #iloveskiing #gopro #hero4\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n- &lt;em&gt;Molly Geary&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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