Lindsey Vonn acknowledges that “I didn’t help myself” by firing back on social media after learning that she wasn’t paired with Mikaela Shiffin for the team combined race at the skiing world championships.

Why am I not surprised?” Vonn wrote Monday on X with a shrug emoji, before deleting her post and adding another.

So it should come as no surprise that having Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin on the same team at times creates friction. It happened years ago when Vonn was finishing up her career and Shiffrin was still in the earlier stages of hers.