In The News Lindsey Vonn, in uncharted territory on rebuilt knee, racing against time for one last Olympics
In her 41st year of life, alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn has entered into an arrangement under the terms of which she is able to once again do things that she never thought her body would allow her to do again. And so she has thrown herself in. If you were offered that deal, you would do the same thing, wouldn't you? Given the chance to run again or to jump or to throw; to see clearly, to sing, to dance, to love for the first time or to see a dear friend for the last. Any of those things that time and life take away. You would take that deal, right? But would you throw yourself in? Vonn skied fearlessly fast down steep hills and won more often in her speed specialties than any woman before or since. And she loved it more than she hated the pain, until there was too much pain, and even then loved it still. Ski racing was not about Vonn, it was of her. So she will not waste a second chance.
