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Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American alpine ski racer. She won four World Cup overall championships with titles in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. She also won a record eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline, five titles in super-G, and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–…
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“I worked really hard to come back. I feel like sometimes I come back so quickly. Everyone forgets how much time and energy and blood, sweat and tears it takes to come back without any training and just jump in there.”
“Our family never gives up and I never gave up. I kept working hard and I”
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“I would be in the back under a sleeping bag, and she”
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Confirmed she had ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) but announced her intention to compete at the Olympics despite the injury
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NBC Olympics: Lindsey Vonn crashes in Crans Montana downhill, 'will continue to undergo further exams'
Suffered a crash in the World Cup downhill in Crans-Montana, the final downhill before the Olympics, and was airlifted off the course
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Career landmark: Participated in alpine skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics – women's downhill (tournament / event).
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Vonn qualified for the 2026 Winter Olympics, her fifth Olympic appearance
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Vonn became the oldest downhill skiing World Cup winner, in St
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NBC Olympics: Lindsey Vonn: Road to Milan Cortina 2026
Vonn made her comeback to the World Cup in St
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In a downhill race at the FIS Fall Festival at Copper Mountain, Colorado, finishing 24th out of 45 skiers
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Vonn announced she was coming out of retirement and returning to competitive skiing after having a successful knee replacement surgery seven months earlier which stopped the pain that had led to her retirement
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Vonn began a relationship with Diego Osorio, co-founder of tequila company Lobos 1707
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Were announced as members of the ownership group of Angel City FC, a Los Angeles-based team set to start play in the National Women's Soccer League in 2022
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Published video “Well...that escalated quickly | Ultimate Home Championship”.
Published video “Lindsey Vonn's Virtual Career Day withTennis Champion Caroline Wozniacki”.
Published video “Lindsey Vonn's Virtual Career Day with Neuroscientist Heather Berlin”.
Published video “Lindsey Vonn's Virtual Career Day with Olympic Snowboard Champion Chloe Kim”.
Published video “Lindsey Vonn's Virtual Career Day with Ballet Dancer Misty Copeland”.
Published video “Lindsey Vonn's Virtual Career Day with Gymnast Shawn Johnson”.
Published video “Lindsey Vonn, PK Subban & Chef Dan Church Make a Healthy Snack | Vonn Appetit”.
Published video “Lindsey Vonn Behind The Scenes Snow Magazine Shoot”.
Vonn and Subban announced their engagement
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Published video “Lindsey Vonn & PK Subban Do Nickelodeon Kids Choice Sports”.
Published video “Lindsey Vonn Gets Worked by Celeb Trainer Gunnar Peterson”.
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Sports (2019).
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Announced her retirement, citing her injuries
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Her total of 82 World Cup victories was a women's record that stood until January 2023, when it was surpassed by Mikaela Shiffrin
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Regardless of whether she managed to surpass Stenmark's tally, explaining that "physically, I've gotten to the point where it doesn't make sense
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HBO released a documentary about Vonn entitled Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, which was nominated for two sports Emmy Awards and teed up what ultimately became her memoir, Rise
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Vonn stated in an interview she would not be representing President Donald Trump in the 2018 Winter Olympics and would not attend the White House reception if she won a gold medal
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In the downhill race at Altenmarkt; she finished 13th
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Vonn announced on her Facebook page that she had severely fractured the humerus bone of her right arm in a training crash
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Won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, the overall record for men or women, surpassing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 19 globes from 1975 to 1984
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Vonn won the last World Cup downhill race at Méribel, France and claimed the World Cup downhill title for the seventh time
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In 2015, Vonn founded the Lindsey Vonn Foundation, which provides "essential enrichment and sports-based scholarships and empowerment programs to girls from underserved communities" across the United States.
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Vonn founded the Lindsey Vonn Foundation, which provides "essential enrichment and sports-based scholarships and empowerment programs to girls from underserved communities" across the United States
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At the women's World Cup downhill race at Lake Louise, Alberta, winning the event in only her second race back
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Vonn announced that she would not compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics because she had re-injured her right knee on December 21, 2013, while skiing in France
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Won a calf in Val d'Isère, which she kept as well
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Vonn re-injured her right knee straining it and partially tearing her right ACL after a crash during training
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Awarded Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year (2011).
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Awarded Best Female Athlete ESPY Award (2011).
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Vonn received the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award, and was the United States Olympic Committee's sportswoman of the year
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Awarded Best U.S. Female Olympian ESPY Award (2010).
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Awarded Best Female Athlete ESPY Award (2010).
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Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (2010).
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Awarded Skieur d'or (2009).
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Vonn repeated as overall World Cup champion, repeated as downhill champion and also won the season championship in super-G by winning the final race of the season
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(plus three silver medals in 2007 and 2011), and four overall World Cup titles, Vonn is one of the most successful American ski racers, and is considered one of greatest alpine skiers of all time
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Won a goat, which she gave to a different farmer in Austria
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Lindsey Vonn won the overall World Cup title
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At the Silver Lake Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah
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Kildow clocked the second-best time in the first practice run yet crashed in the second training run for the downhill race on February 13, 2006, in San Sicario, Italy; she was evacuated by helicopter to Turin and was hos
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In 2005, after winning a downhill race at Val d'Isère, Vonn was offered a pregnant Tarine cow.
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After winning a downhill race at Val d'Isère, Vonn was offered a pregnant Tarine cow
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Competed in four races at her first World Championships held in Bormio, Italy, pulling in fourth-place finishes in both the downhill and the combined
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Kildow was the downhill silver medalist at the U
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Earned a silver medal in downhill in the Junior World Championship at Puy Saint-Vincent, France
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Lindsey Kildow married fellow 2002 Olympian and former U.S.
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Kildow and Will McDonald became the first American athletes to win the "Cadets" slalom events in Italy's Trofeo Topolino di Sci Alpino
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Born 1984-10-18.
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