Lindsey Vonn briefly lost feeling in right arm after getting it hooked on a gate that took her out of her opening race at the Alpine skiing world championships on Thursday, having competed in the super-G despite feeling sick.

Austria's Stephanie Venier topped the podium, and American Lauren Macuga hit a new milestone in her young career in Thursday's super-G.

Lindsey Vonn came into Thursday’s super-G hoping to make history by becoming the oldest Alpine world championship medalist. History was indeed made in Saalbach, Austria — but it wasn’t by Vonn. Austrian Stephanie Venier