...At the 2007 worlds in Are, Sweden, Vonn injured her knee in training and missed her final two events.And at the 2006 Turin Olympics, she had a horrific crash in downhill training and went directly from her hospital room to the mountain to compete...

...didn't have to push super hard in the slalom"Ligety won the combined in the old format with two slalom runs at the 2006 Turin Olympics, but he had never finished on the podium before in super-combined.Two-time defending champion Aksel Lund...

...sprinters in the last three seasons after a 23-year drought. Andy Newell was third in a sprint in China after the 2006 Turin Olympics; Randall finished third in Rybinsk last season and a week later Torin Koos was third in Otepaeae, Estonia...