Lindsey Caroline Vonn (born October 18, 1984) is an American alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team. She has won three consecutive overall World Cup and downhill championships (2008, 2009, 2010), the first American woman and third woman ever to accomplish this. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman. Vonn also won three consecutive World Cup season titles in Super G (the first American woman to do so), and two consecutive titles in the combined.You can also visit her official website
We went to watch the Winterstart World Cup this weekend, and we ended up chilling with loads of the professional skiers! It is so mental that you can sit down to have your lunch and there is Bode Miller putting his boots on 20 mins before he is going to scream down the course at 140km/hr! My lucky moments came in meeting Benny Raich at the top of the lift (Yannick was shaking when we spoke to him as he is his boyhood idol!) and grilling Andy Weibrecht on the chairlift from his favourite run (incidentally its Beaver Creek) to what the atmosphere is like at the start gate. I asked him what his best position was.. and he casually let off that it was third, he only forgot to mention that it was in Vancouver 2010 for the Bronze medal! It was a great weekend, and the atmosphere at the finish area was crazy. There was loads of media and sponsors giving free stuff away so I now have a life supply of chapstick, cuddly hippos and cow bells! Plus there was free marshmallows ... ooo yessss!
This week we had Mike as our instructor. Haha the instructors are fantastic ... quote Jonny 'skiing slowly is like faking an orgasm!!' The snow hasn't been too great but the lessons have been just as amusing. We have been starting to teach each other which is kind of great until you get Tony, a retired chemistry teacher, who kind of sucks the life out of you, the rest of the group and the bears hibernating in the trees. If hes not careful hes going to kill of an entire sub species as there are apparently only 50-80 bears in Alberta! I have developed an SAS (or SBS for Crendon) mindset for getting the buses... its too dangerous to hang around in one place for too long, so I have been running for the buses, tripping over my boots, slipping on ice and charging reindeer on my way, but touch wood I haven't missed any ... yet?!
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