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
When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.
I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.
When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.
I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.
Be proud of yourself when you do keep going!
Setbacks help you to concentrate.
When you fall down, just get up again.
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've been to a lot of photo shoots, and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.
My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.
My mom is positive and optimistic.
It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.