Vonn to go all out in last race
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Are, Sweden
Anyone expecting Lindsey Vonn to take it easy in her last race should think again.
Doesn't matter if she's still banged up from a crash with a black eye, a sore rib — not to mention the pain in both of her knees that forced her to move up her retirement.
"Whether I'm ready or not," Vonn said. "I'm just going to go full throttle."
It will be a fitting way to go out for the record-setting skier in Sunday's downhill at the world championships.
Norwegian great Aksel Lund Svindal set the stage for Vonn by winning the silver medal in the men's downhill Saturday in his last race.
"She didn't win 82 World Cups by being lucky," Svindal said. "If she gets a medal, it wouldn't surprise me at all.