feature || hometown champion
XOXO, LV We already knew Lindsey Vonn was crazy fast and impossible to stop. But this season, the Olympic gold medal skier has a new goal: having fun. | by Karen S. Schneider
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ail, Colo., is understandably proud to call Lindsey Vonn its hometown hero. But here in Minnesota, we know better. The fastest female skier on the planet is clearly a citizen of the world: Click on her Facebook page, and you will find her posting from Switzerland one day, New Zealand another and on to outposts in Bulgaria, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Chile — wherever the ski slope calls. She speaks fluent German. She keeps a pet cow (her trophy from a 2005 win in Val d’Isère, France) on a farm near the U.S. Ski Team’s training base in Austria. And she is equally at ease accepting a gold medal on a podium in Vancouver, Canada, as she is posing on a mountaintop in a race suit and stilettos for the cover of Italy’s Sportweek.
94 Artful Living
| Winter 2013