Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She has won four World Cup overall championships—one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll—with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, plus another in 2012. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman. She has also won the record eight World Cup season...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSkier
Date of Birth18 October 1984
CitySaint Paul, MN
CountryUnited States of America
I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!
I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.
I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.
When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.
I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.
I want to show America who I am and inspire young kids.
Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.
Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.
Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.
I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.