Lindsey Vonn once celebrated a downhill win by attempting to spray a bottle of bubbly that turned out to be broken. Things went downhill fast with Vonn slicing her thumb on the jagged glass.
From elation to ouch in an instant. But that moment at the 2009 world championships in France — she needed tendon surgery — illustrates the bliss and bad breaks along Vonn's road to becoming the winningest female ski racer.
Vail's Lindsey Vonn wrapped up her illustrious 18-year career as the most successful female ski racer in history Sunday with a bronze medal in the downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championship in Are, Sweden.
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Downhill Bronze for Vonn
Racing in her final Olympic downhill race, four-time Olympian Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) won the bronze medal, leading three Americans into the top-seven Wednesday at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre.
One mistake cost Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) a shot at another Olympic medal. But it was one fast snowboarder who took a second Olympic super-G gold away from Austria’s Anna Veith.
Swiss Lara Gut (left), Lindsey Vonn and Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany on the podium following Saturday’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. (Getty Images via USSA / Christof Stache)
Lindsey Vonn is back on top!
In only her second race since returning from a pair of injuries that sidelined her for almost a year, Vonn won Saturday’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup downhill on the Kandahar course for the third time in her career. Saturday’s win marked her 77th career World Cup victory, moving her closer to the all-time mark of 86 wins set by the legendary Swede Ingemar Stenmark.
UPDATE FEB. 29: From Lindsey Vonn's Facebook: "So the MRI shows a pretty substantial fracture in my tibial plateau. MCL looks decent as well as the rest of my knee. Now I will talk to my trainers and make a plan. I'll keep you guys updated. Big thanks to everyone who helped me get through today and to the fans that always supported me!"
Lindsey Vonn, in the lead for the overall World Cup title, crashed in the soft snow Saturday morning in Solder-El-Tarter, Andorra on a windy, snowy super G course. She was evacuated from the hill on a sled.
The battle continued between Lindsey Vonn and Switzerland’s Lara Gut for the overall World Cup title at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup super G Sunday in La Thuile, Italy. Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather won her fifth career World Cup race as Gut was second and Vonn third.
Lindsey Vonn wrapped up her eighth overall World Cup downhill title, and moved back into the overall World Cup lead following her second place downhill finish at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Saturday at La Thuile, Italy. American Steven Nyman finished second in the men’s downhill at Chamonix, France.
New day, same result. Lindsey Vonn crushed the Kandahar downhill course in Saturday’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany to take her record 76th World Cup victory.
Lindsey Vonn hoped to extend her World Cup win streak to 76 and her overall Audi FIS Ski World Cup lead in Saturday’s giant slalom Saturday morning in Maribor, France. But a soft, sugary course got the best of both her andSwitzerland’s Lara Gut, her top competitor, in the hunt for the overall title.
Unstoppable Lindsey Vonn notched still another Audi FIS Ski World Cup victory, number 75, Sunday in super G and moved into the overall World Cup lead.
Lindsey Vonn smashed yet another record Saturday in Cortina, winning her 37th Audi FIS Ski World Cup downhill. On the track where Vonn broke the all-time World Cup win record last season, the American superstar battled wind to take the win and break Annemarie Moser-Proell’s record of 36 downhill wins.
It was a tough day for Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) and Megan McJames (Park City, UT) in Sunday’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup giant slalom in Flachau, Austria..
Lindsey Vonn extended her super G win streak to four with a commanding victory over her top rival Lara Gut in the hunt for the overall World Cup title at Sunday’s Audi FIS Alpine World Cup at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria. It was the American superstar’s 73rd overall World Cup victory.
American Superstar Lindsey Vonn, who clocked the fastest time in the opening run, put a strong second run together to lead the rest of the pack by at least one second. She crossed the finish line with a combined time of 2:11.17 to clinch her 36th career World Cup win, equalling Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll's downhill record. The unusual downhill race included two sprint runs at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria.
Lindsey Vonn’s bid for a record-tying downhill victory hit a bump in the snow Saturday. Vonn, the current overall World Cup leader, was .13 faster than Switzerland’s Lara Gut at the first split time when she hit a bump midway down the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhill course in Val d'Isere, France and briefly became airborne.
There are still a few opportunities to pad the Christmas stocking for the world’s best alpine skiers.
Lindsey Vonn won her first giant slalom Saturday at Are, Sweden since her near career-ending 2013 World Championships crash.
Lindsey Vonn triumphed at Lake Louise by bagging a hat-trick. After winning both legs of a downhill doubleheader, she totally dominated the first super-G race of the World Cup season Sunday. The seemingly unstoppable American didn't let anyone come close.
