Lindsey Vonn hit pause on her life to 'set a new standard of what’s possible' back on the ski slopes She helped Salt Lake City secure hosting rights for the 2034 Winter Olympics and designed her own skiwear and goggles lines.
That’s because Vonn recently came out of retirement and is back ski racing at the age of 40 — currently at the world championships and preparing to chase a medal in Saturday’s downhill on her new titanium knee.
Vonn was criticized in Europe when she returned to the skiing circuit in December, with Austrian and Swiss former champions suggesting she was “crazy” to race downhill at her age, attributing it to a lack of purpose in retirement.
“Skiing is a specific part of my life and there’s nothing that I can do outside of skiing that will ever replace it,” Vonn said.
So much so that Vonn has continued to compete at the worlds despite feeling sick with cold- and flu-like symptoms and despite losing feeling briefly in her right arm when she got caught on a gate in the super-G, her opening race on Thursday.
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