Vonn will race at Cortina this weekend, the site of some of her greatest successes. Can she recapture the magic?

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.

Lindsey Vonn’s stellar return to alpine skiing continued Saturday as the American star finished sixth place in her first World Cup downhill competition in nearly six years. In a strong, controlled run down the tricky course in St.