Lindsey Vonn's skis are waiting for her — whether she decides to continue racing or not.

While Vonn ponders her future, her longtime ski technician has set up shop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where World Cup downhill and super-G races are scheduled for this weekend.

"I have just arrived in Garmisch and set up my ski room. Then we see what's coming out," Heinz Haemmerle told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

"The skis are ready whatever she's deciding," Haemmerle said. "That's why I am here. Otherwise I could stay at home."

Rainer Salzgeber, the racing director for Head skis, added that the company is preparing as if Vonn will race in Garmisch and then the world championships in Are, Sweden, next month.

"For Heinz right now it looks like this," Salzgeber told the AP. "But how it will end up in the next couple of days or hours I do not know."

Vonn has left everyone guessing over her next move after announcing on Sunday that she was considering immediate retirement because of severe pain in both of her knees. She finished no better than ninth in three races in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, last weekend.

Vonn had been planning to retire in December, following races in Lake Louise, Alberta, where she has won a record 18 times. While she is already the women's record-holder with 82 World Cup victories, Vonn needs five more wins to break the all-time mark of 86 held by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark.

Vonn's most recent post on social media quoted the French philosopher Voltaire: "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

Vonn had returned to action in Cortina following an injury to her left knee — she hyperextended it and sprained a ligament while training in November. Also, her right knee is permanently damaged from previous crashes.

"I've had four surgeries on my right knee. I've got no LCL (lateral collateral ligament) on my left knee. I've got two braces on. There's only so much I can handle and I might have reached my maximum," Vonn said Sunday.

Patrick Riml, Vonn's coach with the U.S. Ski Team for much of her career and now a representative with Red Bull, one of Vonn's main sponsors, said the decision will come down to how her body feels.

"Obviously there's some issues and some limitations if she can't put pressure on the leg like she wasn't able to in Cortina," Riml said.

"We all want to see her competing and doing a good job," Riml added, noting that the pain may have become too much to endure. "That's for every athlete. If mother nature makes that call it's never fun."

Nobody had a precise indication of Vonn's plans.

"I didn't talk to her because she wanted to be by her own," Haemmerle said. "I go to her later (this) afternoon and then we'll see what is going to happen tomorrow.

"I don't know. I really don't know," he said. "I sent her a message; she didn't even check it since two days."

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