A women's alpine skier carves out a turn.

Lindsey Vonn skied into an impressive sixth place in her first World Cup downhill race for six years on Saturday. The 40-year-old from the United States — the greatest downhill racer in women's World Cup history — was fastest in the first part of the course touching 124 km/h and finished 0.58 seconds behind race leader Federica Brignone of Italy.