Vonn Committed to 2018 Olympics
PARK CITY, UT (Jan. 29) - Olympic and World Champion Lindsey Vonn (Vail. CO) has committed to returning to the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup tour in hopes of racing for gold at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail-Beaver Creek, CO and says she'll compete through the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. The 2010 Olympic downhill champion, who will sit out the Sochi Olympics while recovering from ACL surgery, delivered her intentions during an exlusive interview with NBC's TODAY Show on Jan. 28. Vonn will serve as a special correspondent for TODAY and NBC Sports during the Feb. 7-23 Olympics in Russia. Vonn holds a record 17 Audi FIS Alpine World Cup titles including 59 World Cup wins, three shy of tying Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell for the women's all time record.
Lindsey Vonn
Known as one of the world's most successful female ski racers, Lindsey Vonn is coming out of retirement to rejoin the Stifel U.S. Ski Team. She is the only American woman to capture downhill gold at the Olympics, has 82 World Cup victories, 137 World Cup podiums, seven World Championship medals, and 20 World Cup titles (including four Overall World Cup Crystal Globes).