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He might be 35, but Canadian veteran Erik Guay just became a ski world champion to join the recent list of mid 30-somethings proving age is just a number.
It’s only February and already Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Tom Brady have shown that the youngsters don’t have a monopoly on vim and vigor.
Sometimes age and experience can trump youthful exuberance.
Erik Guay won the world super-G title at the age of 35.
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Guay hadn’t won for almost three years when he became skiing’s oldest world champion with victory in the super-G at glitzy St. Moritz Wednesday.
The 2011 downhill world champion edged out Olympic champion Kjetil Jansrud, 31, with fellow Canadian Manuel Osborne-Paradis grabbing third on his 33rd birthday.
Guay’s achievement comes three days after 39-year-old quarterback Brady steered the New England Patriots to a remarkable Super Bowl victory after trailing the Atlanta Falcons 28-3 in the third quarter.
It was Brady’s fifth Super Bowl title, all with the Patriots, coming 15 years after his first.
In both games Brady was named Most Valuable Player.
Bucking the trend is Tiger Woods, whose comeback from injury at the age of 41 suffered a setback in Dubai last week.
Playing in only his second full-field event for 17 months to rehab from back surgery, Woods pulled out of the European Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic after round one, citing “back spasms.”
Fortunately, Sergio Garcia was able to fly the veterans’ flag with victory in Dubai at the age of 37.
However, the Spaniard’s win was shortlived respite for the old guard.
Japan’s 24-year-old Hideki Matsuyama won the Phoenix Open on the PGA Tour later that day to continue his duel with Justin Thomas, 23, as golf’s hottest property.
In football, 44-year-old Egypt goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary also made headlines when he saved two penalties to take his side into the Africa Cup of Nations final earlier this month.
However, El-Hadary was denied a fairytale finish when Cameroon lifted the trophy with a 2-1 win in Libreville.
Lindsey Vonn clinched her eighth World Cup downhill title for a record 20th crystal globe in 2016 despite missing the end of the season to recover from a hairline fracture of her left knee.
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Can Vonn become the GOAT? The 32-year-old is just 10 World Cup wins behind the all-time record of 86, held by Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark.
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After just nine weeks out, she is ready to return to skiing after a broken arm and severe nerve damage in her right hand, at this weekend's World Cup races in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria.
She fractured her left knee in February 2016 in a crash during a World Cup super-G race in Soldeu, Andorra, but raced the combined event the next day before calling an end to her season.
Vonn bagged her 37th World Cup downhill win in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in January 2016 to move ahead of Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell's record. She added another victory a couple of weeks later in Garmisch, Germany.
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Vonn's public profile went galactic when she dated star golfer Tiger Woods for two years from 2013-2015.
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Golden girl Vonn won the Olympic downhill at Whistler in 2010 and added bronze in the super-G.
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Vonn won the first of three straight World Cup overall titles in 2008 at the age of 23. She added a fourth in 2012, but is still chasing Moser-Proell's record of six overall crystal globes.
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Lindsey Kildow -- as she was then before marrying fellow skier Thomas Vonn -- won her first World Cup race with victory in the downhill at Lake Louise, Canada, in 2004.
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She made her Olympic debut in Salt Lake City in 2002 as a 17-year-old, finishing 32nd in slalom and sixth in the combined slalom/downhill event.
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Lindsey Vonn: American chasing World Cup win record
Back to skiing, and the 32-year-old Lindsey Vonn is still the one to beat on the women’s speed events. The American failed to finish in Tuesday’s super-G at the World Championships in St. Moritz but is hot favorite for the downhill title Sunday.