Translation: "Today, Lindsey Vonn is competing in her fifth Olympic Games. 📷 Olympic profile photo Turin 2006 (21 years old) 📷 Olympic profile photo Milan-Cortina 2026 (41 years old)"Hoy, Lindsey Vonn compite en sus quintos JJOO.
— David Orenes (@david_lrl) February 8, 2026
📷 Foto ficha olímpica Turín 2006 (21 años)
📷 Foto ficha olímpica Milán-Cortina 2026 (41 años) pic.twitter.com/jQotPOJrsa
That "is competing" needs amending to was competing.
BREAKING: WATCH:
— 𝐀𝐋𝐏𝐇𝐀 ® (@Alpha7021) February 8, 2026
Lindsey Vonn’s Olympic downhill run ended in disaster as she crashed early in the race, crushing her chances of winning a medal.
The dramatic moment was captured on video. pic.twitter.com/v9wShvl0jh
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Sad news that she fell and got hurt, most likely because of age.
Good news is that she's one of those people that get more attractive as they age.
Pole got stuck in the flag.
Her look is so much warmer in the 2006 photo.
At age 41 she should not have competed--and taken the place of a younger skier. She has multiple medals, and was unlikely to get another. That being said, anyone who has torn an ACL can only slightly imagine the blinding, pass-out, please-shoot-me, excrutiating pain she must have felt in that tumble.
Unless she reinjured her ACL Vonn competes again in the Super-G on Thursday.
Go for it Lindsey!
That second photo has been photoshopped, yes? I see recent candid shots of her on the internet with softer features like the first photo.
FullMoon said...
Pole got stuck in the flag.
Thanks, it was hard to detect what spun her to the right.
Her modern photo makes her look like she is applying at the White House.
That endorsement cash must have been pretty huge to ruin a knee for.
I looked up her age when I saw she crashed again.
And since empathy is the byword these days, I want to blame somebody, and even though I really like Tom Brady, who doesn't, truly, I blame him for making other extraordinary people like himself, believe they too could defy aging.
Here is looking at you Tom (place holder for a middle finger emoji, that should exist, but at this particular times it's not available)
OMG. what if I'm mad at Tom for not being the quarterback at todays Super Bowl?
That’s a bad break. My friend Jon had the exact same ski accident in which he rolled but the bindings held creating the rotation fracture. Luckily an excellent orthopedic surgeon was on call at St Bernadine’s saved his foot. Strangely another friend Bob broke his ankle stealing second base and the same surgeon showed up drunk and botched his leg, causing the calf muscles to atrophy. He lost the major league contract he had just signed and the million dollar payout went up his nose. Both are gone now
I do feel sorry for USA’s Breezy Johnson, who skied the race of her life to win the gold, only to be overshadowed by her teammate’s wipeout (not to mention, even more superficially, Vonn’s looks).
Like Vonn, Breezy Johnson will be competing again Thursday. Go for it, Breezy!
The big difference between the two pics is hair and makeup, not aging.
I thought Jimmy Connors had comeback to win.
AI: Connors' most famous "old age" achievement was not a title win, but his legendary run to the 1991 US Open semifinals as a wildcard at the age of 39.
Vonn now gets to replace Vinko Bogataj on the "agony of defeat" beat.
@Mike (MJBWolf): "...He lost the major league contract he had just signed and the million dollar payout went up his nose. Both are gone now ...."
Dang ! That's rough, losing a million bucks and your nose.
If you think she's had work done to her face, you should see what they did to her knees. I would say this is a triumph both for her cosmetic and orthopedic surgeons.......She has had a knee replacement. Maybe next time she can compete in the Special Olympics.
No question she has had cosmetic surgery. The Olympic committee should have removed her from competition as medically disqualified and let an alternate race. She was critically injured for a downhill racer. Selfish on her part and stupid on the part of the US Olympic committee. One can hope she is not badly injured although it's a safe bet the she is going to get the knee replacement now that she needed before she arrived in Cortina.
When you are good, like Vonn has been, you are apt to think, 'maybe my highlight reel would really be spectacular if had something like a Kirk Gibson sendoff. (or an approximation; it's a different sport)
The immortality reel. That's what that is.
Her "before" and "after" looks both have their own subjective merits. And then there's Chelsea Clinton...
My only interest in the Olympics was Lindsay Vonn.
Crashing and injuries are common in downhill skiing. Competitors a ~100% chance of knee surgery per Olympic cycle.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion but it wasn’t safe to race. Pushing yourself to win is one thing, but racing at an Olympic level a week after an ACL tear is just foolish.
I'm pretty convinced that the advertisers (or their analysis teams) ran some kind of survey or assessment to gauge the potential viewership "hit" if Lindsey Vonn competed while injured, compared to the scenario where the team declared her a no-go and let a fully healthy athlete take her spot. I don't need a Wheaties box lecture to understand how the Olympics actually work in the real world.
Sometimes someone has to save you from yourself, especially in a situation like this.
That said, I hope she recovers soon.
Big Mike said...
"Unless she reinjured her ACL Vonn competes again in the Super-G on Thursday.
Go for it Lindsey!"
No worries. If she can't go, Marco Rubio can take over.
This is a stupid question probably, but I'll ask it: Do Olympic teams have a back bench, i.e. extra team members in the event of happenstances like this one, where someone conceivably drops out due to injury or other life circumstances? I would have thought so. Certainly the qualifying trials has plenty of candidates, especially for events like this one. But maybe the budgets are so limited there's no room for extra riders. I would have thought the team's manager would have told her regretfully that she must sit it out after such a serious type of injury, for the team's sake at least as much as for hers.
I've only aware of Lindsey Vonn from when I read she was Tiger Woods' main squeeze. Or he was hers, I can't remember. I guess squeeze status can fluctuate between genders.
Perhaps strangely, I too prefer the picture of her on the left. She looks friendly and good-hearted.
And Mark, I must agree, the woman on the right looks like she would be at a Republican National Convention. Not that I object to that, but it does hint at a knowing look of unattainability.
A 41 year old is among the US' best female skiers? That's not great.
Correction to my comment at 10:17. You cannot reinjure or further injure an ACL that is totally torn.
In response to Minnesota farm guy, people knowledgeable about downhill skiing say that it was safe for her to ski with a special brace. They know, or claim to know, and I don’t. Are you an expert in the kinesiology of alpine skiing? Maybe you’d want to defer to those who are?
Anyway, people! A female USA skier WON THE DOWNHILL! She wasn’t named Vonn. Deal with it.
Female feats of athleticism and aestheticsm.
’No worries. If she can't go, Marco Rubio can take over.’
Love it!!
@Aggie, of course Team USA carries alternates. Vonn’s ACL injury happened just days ago so it is possible that under Olympic Alpine Skiing rules it was too late to replace her with an alternate. Or the coaches, conferring with team doctors, trainers, and Vonn herself, may have decided that Vonn skiing with a brace was more likely to win a medal than their alternate. Their call to make, not ours.
"And Mark, I must agree, the woman on the right looks like she would be at a Republican National Convention."
For the Democratic Convention, she'd need blue hair with half her head shaved and a nose ring.
rrsafety said...
“A 41 year old is among the US' best female skiers? That's not great.”
But I’ve been told 40 is the new 30.
Time for more surgery, it appears.
Vonn was authentic in 2006. Now she's just product... or former product, depending.
Ken Rosewall in 1974 made the Wimbledon finals at 39, though you don't risk life and limb playing tennis. Gordie Howe played his last NHL season at 52. Video of his final goal. Note he's not wearing a helmet.
Amexpat said...
“Sad news that she fell and got hurt, most likely because of age.”
I hope they get her a MedicAlert bracelet.
Lindsey certainly has more expensive hair in the second photo…
Just look at the eyes. Cover the rest of the face. What do you see? Hope and joy on the left and exhaustion opposite. Sad really.
Lot of that difference is just makeup and pose. And hair color. Her nose and jaw seems a little smaller.
As for the crash. Ouch. Not sure what happened. Guess she was trying to correct mid-air and got it wrong.
one reason why i don't ski anymore.
For those focused on Lindsey Vonn’s age, back in 2008 US Olympic swimmer Dara Torres won three silver medals in Beijing. She was also 41, and had given birth to a daughter. (No word on whether the daughter was born with gills.)
Two of her medals were on relays but she won an individual silver in to 50 meter race, losing the gold by 1/100 of a second. When interviewed on TV she cheerfully said that she regretted trimming her fingernails the night before the race. Classy.
“ I hope they get her a MedicAlert bracelet.”
You know, if she agreed for this footage to be used in an ad with her shouting, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”, followed by the helicopter airlift, that would be marketing genius and make her a lot of money.
One is left to imagine whether the 41 year old has a better-looking cooter.
I don't think she got within 10 feet of the flag. It looks to me she probably realized she was in trouble midair and turned to try to control (to no avail) the crash landing.
Fun facts about Lindsay: "In 2005, as the winner of the downhill race at Val d'Isère, Vonn was offered a pregnant Tarine cow, a locally popular dairy breed. Although she was offered the option to sell the animal immediately back to the organizers for €5,000, Vonn decided to keep it, as she knew a farmer in Austria who would be willing to take care of the cow, whom she named "Olympe". In 2009, she won a goat, which she gave to a different farmer in Austria. In 2014, she won a calf in Val d'Isère, which she kept as well. As of 2014, she owned a small herd of cows on the farm."
There was a famous magazine cover of her that came out as part of the build-up to a previous Olympics that injuries prevented her from competing in.
Off the top of my head, I think archers and shooters have the longest Olympic careers.
I would say Lindsay will likely profit more from her impressive crash today than if she had finished fourth.
"Go for it, Breezy!"
I'll do my best! ;)
"whether the 41 year old has a better-looking cooter."
My interest in female athletes is and always has been entirely prurient.
Does that make me a bad person?
Lindsey Vonn doesn't matter, she is a sorry gold digger who dated tiger woods, another loser of a man. Women who date this sort look the way Vonn does at 41. Pathetic.
After surgery, all women fall into one of about 4 looks. Can't tell who is who anymore.
The only event I watch of the Olympics is Alpine downhill. I think to myself "I used to do that." Not at that level, of course.
I just saw the crash. Vonn caught that gate pretty hard. Hope she's not hurt too badly.
As far as taking a younger racer's place on the team, they all get there the same way. They compete for the space. She was faster than somebody else.
"Infinite Jest" calls it again, that's not a face, it's an avatar.
I just learned that Vonn needed emergency surgery for a broken left leg. Pretty serious.
I stand corrected. I just watched it in slo-mo and she did catch the gate. It was hard to see from the angle.
Those are not the same people in the images.
Nonetheless, her heart was and remains that of a Lion. Much more so than most.
It goes without saying, I hope Lindsey Vonn fully recovers. She has already had 9 surgeries to her knees alone, and now she has to rehab a torn ACL and a broken leg. I feel for her.
My interest in female athletes is and always has been entirely prurient.
Does that make me a bad person?
@Narr, yes.
"@Narr, yes."
You heard it here first.
@stunned Vonn had a career on par with Tiger’s. She absolutely dominated the sport for a decade…to the point they were considering rule changes to knock her down a bit.
Mason G@11:47am nailed it.
The woman dated a serial cheater for two years. Voluntarily. Who cares about her career. Not me.
Evolving.
Poor Breezy Johnson. She wins a gold medal in the downhill, but all anyone seems to care about is her teammate’s big wipeout and injury. Then the ribbon comes apart, her gold medal falls to the ground, and it breaks into three pieces.
Women are expected to look the same and never change.
I'm getting my duck lips installed next week.
j/k
Young Vonn was young!, pretty and covered in makeup.
That's the other dirty secret - as women age - makeup does not look as good. That's why so many women give up on heavy makeup as they age.
Men often get more "distinguished" as they age, (not all) - but you guys paid your dues when you were young, geeky and awkward ... spindly and clueless. It's all relative.
She was doomed the second she put that #13 vest on.
As for the rest, she won her spot in qualifications, and wanted to race despite the ACL injury. End of story.
Hold on a sec. That blonde is my neighbors online Russian fiancé who promises to jet o USA as soon as he sends another $5,000.00 for airfare.
stunned--all you care about is who she was dating? Why do you care about that? You only know who she is because she's a phenomenally talented athlete. Do you care about who any other athlete is dating?
I don't know whether this didn't age well, or was right on target.
https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-releases/scarlett-johansson-and-lindsey-vonn-share-scar-stories-in-new-promo-for-nbcuniversals-coverage-of-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-winter-games
’…but you guys paid your dues when you were young, geeky and awkward ... spindly and clueless.’
Like, for only the first forty years of my life, so… :)
I watched a little of the men's downhill yesterday. 89 mph. Those guys are insane!
’89 mph.’
Yeah, but snow is really soft if you wipe out. lol
They actually spray water on the course to make it firm (ie icy). Otoh, they all wear airbags to protect their spines and there are 50’ high nets to catch them.
This is the sad irony of being a top athlete -- you spend your entire life training your body and gaining skills to compete at the highest levels, and then aging (and often injury) gradually takes it all away from you. The decision to retire must be the most difficult one they ever face, which is why so many resist it for so long.
Sing her a lullaby,
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run,
Did Vonn evolved into the woman Tiger who've Lili Von Shtüpp?
Maybe Vonn wasn't ready that time they pair vonded.
disabled video. Video, fell, after driving itself into a frozen ice wall at 89 mph.
She is person not just an athlete. She chose to enter relationship with a conscience lacking man. I question her motives for doing so. You don't have to if you don't want to. Did she think she was "special" and it wouldn't happen to her? Why would I care how many medals someone won if they can't be a decent human being? I am sorry she hurt her leg. I am not sorry for not admiring her.
Did Vonn evolved into the woman Tiger who've Lili Von Shtüpp?
They didn't start dating until 3 years after Tiger got divorced.
Wishing fellow Buck Hill alumni Lindsey Vonn the best recovery possible. And pulling for my other Buck Hill alumni, Paula Moltzan to pick up a medal for the team.
But mostly, thinking:
CONTRATS TO BREEZY JOHNSON for one heck of a ride in the most extreme environment imaginable.
Watched it live from late (or very early) on the West Coast. She wasn't the only skier airlifted off the mountain.
Brutal course.
Narr said...
"My interest in female athletes is and always has been entirely prurient."
I was in a lift line at Hintertux behind Picaboo Street. At the time her behind was the eighth wonder of the world.
Her modern photo makes her look like she is applying at the White House.
Once again - on a subject that has nothing to do with politics - some asshole has to make it about politics.
Get a life.
Kind of funny that an Olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them.
U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics. If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it. Very hard to root for someone like this. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ~ Donald J Trump @realDonaldTrump
boatbuilder said...
“I watched a little of the men's downhill yesterday. 89 mph. Those guys are insane!”
It’s good they kept it under 90. Otherwise that would be extra points on the speeding ticket.
one recalls a rather spectacular fracas, that was the opener for the wide world of sports reel
“This is a stupid question probably, but I'll ask it: Do Olympic teams have a back bench, i.e. extra team members in the event of happenstances like this one, where someone conceivably drops out due to injury or other life circumstances? “
Yes. Kinda GF sat the bench for the (I believe) 1972 Olympic Downhill. Crazy woman. Loved speed, even when I knew her in her 50s. She wanted a “horse” car. No, not a Mustang - the European one. I offered to get an emblem, and attach it the grill of her Ram 2500 or her Mercedes minivan. And told her that if she succeeded, I wouldn’t live closer than two counties from her. She was scary enough in that Mercedes.
which one is the European Horse car?
“Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III, who uses the stage name Theo Von, is an American stand-up comic and podcaster.”
Theo’s name is a Von name.
Ferrari, narc…
“ Wishing fellow Buck Hill alumni Lindsey Vonn the best recovery possible. And pulling for my other Buck Hill alumni, Paula Moltzan to pick up a medal for the team.”
Vonn certainly didn’t pick up her Downhill expertise at Buck Hill. Can you even hit 35, top to bottom, going straight?
Not denigrating what that ski area turns out in ski racers. Good friend spent a year there growing up while his father was on sabbatical at the U of M. And his middle daughter trained with them at Mt Hood a couple of years in HS. It was kinda a joke. The groups based there would be up on the mountain maybe 10-11 am. Buck Hill kids were up there at 8 am, and taking a break then. And doing what they were famous for - running thousands of gates. Traditionally, one of the best programs in the US, for skill events.
Now my story. Back country ski group friend was a sports pediatrician in the Twin Cities. His three boys went through the program at Buck Hill, and so, he got on the ski patrol there. Was one of two first patrollers there certified on tele skis. I was living in SLC during the winter Olympics, and he came to work. Not having the political connections for doctoring for alpine events, he ended up doing Luge and Bobsled. In any case, his present for staying with me was a T Shirt for the Buck Hill Ski Patrol, showing a couple patrollers, proclaiming 30k or so avalanche free days there.It was funny because it’s got the wrong snow, and not enough elevation to avalanche. And I had actually been snowed in one time in Little Cottonwood Canyon, by SLC. Best powder I ever skied. Gave the T shirt to that friend whose daughter skied with them on MT Hood.
“ Ferrari, narc…”
Hence, my fears for her driving one in N NV where we lived.
@ Big Mike I am more than familiar with what happens to the stability of one's knee when the ACL goes. I don't care what kind of BS the Vonn supporters say; brace or no brace she was asking for trouble and the awful picture of her fall and the result prove she got it. Vonn exhibited the classic athletic "more balls than brains". Someone should have played adult in the room and saved her a lot of pain.
Did not know the origin, where can you drive one put in the desert
The turn Vonn was skiing was a bit rough, her skis chatted around through it. To me, it looked like this compressed her just as she took off — putting her back & off balance. She extended her pole for balance which hit the gate while in flight, which rotated her.
It doesn't look directly linked to he knee, though perhaps she would have been stronger in the turn before she took off. Once she rotated in flight it was out of her control.
Erich Sailer was the head racing coach and director at Buck Hill. It still seems weird that you could develop a Lindsey Vonn on a bunny hill, but proximity, repetition, and good coaching count for a lot, something Sailer obviously understood.
Alpine ski racing is hardly more than one hundred years old, and so Erich Sailer represents most of it, and like other great American coaches bridged the Atlantic—notably Pepi Gramshammer, whose contributions to Vail were immeasurable, and with whom Sailer brought life to Red Lodge, Montana—he inspired and prepared U.S. athletes to compete on the world stage.
Vonn is unique there. American women just aren’t competitive in Alpine racing that old. In the skill events (SL, GS) they have traditionally peaked in maybe their early 20s, and the speed events (SG, DH) in their late 20s. Men tended to peak later, and the best guys could be competitive in the speed events in their late 30s. And even early 40s. Part of it, I think, is getting comfortable at those speeds (I never came close). Even in CO, that training was problematic. Good friend was #2, in DH, in the Rocky Mtn Division juniors in high school, and was lucky to have the opportunity to train at Lionshead at Vail - where they just non-stopped, top to bottom, for a week straight. Hours a day at 70 mph or so. It’s just hard, getting the time at those speeds (and faster) if you aren’t on a national team, or one of their training squads.
Of course, older male racers, by that time have spent the many hours at those speeds, and have raced all the major downhill courses a number of times in Europe and America By then. And Vonn, of course. That’s why she was competitive. I think I remember when she moved from skill events to speed events (my next brother tracked that sort of thing, racing until he hit 70 - but missing his goal of 70 at 70, with his doctor telling him to quit racing period).
As a former ski racer, there are injuries one can sustain that don’t necessarily preclude competing in a downhill: a broken finger, bruised arm, etc.. But a torn ACL is not one of these as you’re missing stability under lateral and fore/aft pressure. She’s fortunate to have gone out of the course before the real speed built up.
“Erich Sailer was the head racing coach and director at Buck Hill. It still seems weird that you could develop a Lindsey Vonn on a bunny hill, but proximity, repetition, and good coaching count for a lot, something Sailer obviously understood.”
I think that the answer is that she didn’t. My memory is that she made the US team on her skiing skill events, where the thousands of gates the racers at Buck Hill ski. Then transitioned to speed events later. By then, I believe, she was living in Vail, that does have the required elevation drop to train for speed events.
I remember, one of the first times we skied Vail, was watching an international downhill hill (US, France, Austria) down the Great Steps there. It was, I believe, 1964, a year or two after Vail opened.
We raced for A Basin (CO) in HS. The team moved down to Keystone, by the time my younger brothers were racing. Then combined with the Breckenridge team to form Team Summit. Surprising number of parents with very promising junior racers move there for the end of HS, including some from Buck Hill. Or Vail, just over Vail Pass. On either team, their PE is a couple hours of race training every school day. Maybe not as intensive as Sailor at Buck Hill, but 7 days a week.
Ferrari adopted the prancing horse logo from the personal sigel of Italy's highest-scoring ace of WW I, Major Francesco Baracca (34 kills).
"At the time her [Picaboo Street's] behind was the eighth wonder of the world."
That's what I'm talking about!
" . . .Not denigrating what that ski area turns out. . . ."
Well Bruce, I guess you can say whatever you want about my native ski area. However the natural snow-like -tuff in the southern suburbs of Minneapolis where I (and Lindsey and Paula) learned to ski beats the heck out of your supposedly good Wasatch powder! And, vertical feet. . . . . .whatever.
You just keep on believing what you want!
; )
Lindsey Vonn skied and trained at Buck Hill for approximately 10 years, starting at age 2 and continuing until her family moved to Vail, when she was around 11 or 12 years old. She trained extensively under coach Erich Sailer, starting formal training at age 6
Before you condemn Ms Vonn you should know that she completed two training runs without incident, having the third fastest time in the second run. Before the Olympics she was ranked first in downhill and fourth in super-g. It was not unreasonable for her to compete in the race.
She should've pulled out when she ruptured her knee and given her spot to someone else. Sorry it ended like this, but she had no business competing with a ruptured ligament. Your knees are kind of important to skiing.
She's 41 and has won so many medals, what else does she need to prove to herself? Of course, maybe there's an alternative universe where she wins gold with a blown out knee...but I doubt it.
’As a former ski racer…’
Did you ever hit speeds in the 89 mph range? I can’t imagine going that fast on skis. Yes: superb athletes, great training, and adrenaline, but damn…
Maneuverability cant be great
'Former" -- Our kids got me into snowboarding 15 years ago and haven't looked back. Also a X country skier and compete in the American Birkebeiner (50K freestyle).
Kakistocracy said...
Kind of funny that an Olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them.
Oh dear. This is why we don't "play stupid" - sometimes it sticks. He's hijacking a platform given to him by Americans because of his athletic skill to turn what should be a unifying event into the same divisive temper tantrum you guys have been throwing 24 /7 since you lost the election.
It is inconsiderate to politicize every single thing and proselytize normal Americans who just want to enjoy the movie. It's also a white trash move to involve neighbors in a personal dispute. We will not give in to bullying attempts to overturn the election. We simply can't, where would it end?
You guys LOST the election, SoreLoserman. Your childish attempts to hold your breath until we reverse it have no power here. Grow up.
AND BE WARNED. If your side cannot accept and respect the outcome of a fair election there's no point in having elections anymore. We will cast "ballots" at 500 meters.
Fen bringing the heat...🔥
"This video has been removed in response to a report by a copyright owner."
Money-hoovering IOC and NBC at it again.
Lindsey won two FIS World Downhill races this season, and in her practice run the other day posted the 3rd fastest time overall. On a damaged knee. She more than earned her spot and the discretion to stay in the competition. She got a bad break in what is still an incredible comeback story.
When I heard Von was going to compete with a torn acl I thought: Hubris.
@Big Mike - Dara Torres has to be one of the most amazing female athletes of all time. 2008 was her 2nd comeback. I watched part of the first from the stands at the Indiana natatorium when she and Jenny Thompson dueled it out in the 100 M Butterfly at the 2000 Olympic Trials. Richard Quick was coaching both of them and had some funny anecdotes. I have a picture in a box somewhere of her giving me a big kiss at the 2004 trials in LA.
Lindsey vonn's career ended teh same way Megan Rapinoe's
That pair of pictures of her makes me think of that photo series Porn Stars Before and After Make-up.
Lindsey vonn's career ended teh same way Megan Rapinoe's
Nope. Lindsey didn't piss all over the flag, and then send a PK flying over the crossbar.
Pretty sure the "today's" picture is a photoshop to some degree. As an earlier commenter noticed, many of her pictures over the last few months are available &, while attractive, don't have the only fans cougar look. BTW, I really don't understand all the persons here ragging on Ms. Von. Her life has been pretty much competitive skiing and she showed, in world class meets, that she's still a winner.
AI found me the famous Catherine Deneuve quote: "At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass". I don't think downhill skiers get to choose.
Ridiculous collapse of an attempt at grace.
There are lots of things not to like about liberals in general and lefty extremists like Kaki and minnesota farm guy, and that is their preposterous notion that they should be allowed to have a say in what others — their betters — do, or plan to do, or try to do. The rules for who gets to ski in the event are complex, but I gather from my attempting to understand them that Team USA could not merely substitute an alternate for Lindsey Vonn. It appears to be the case that Lindsey skied or Lindsey scratched and the USA had one fewer skier on the mountain. Did she have guts or was she cursed with hubris? I say she had guts and I applaud her effort.
And unlike nearly everyone upthread, I applaud Breezy Johnson.
Breezy's run was epic. She was right on the edge of control the whole run, squeezing out each tiny bit of speed.. Fantastic!
The many faces of Lindsey Vonn. None of them looks much like the "after" picture above, and few of them look much like each other.
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2006 seems like yesterday. It's hard to believe that for some people, it's half a lifetime away.
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If wars are how Americans learn geography, sports are how we learn anatomy. Without sports how would we know an ACL from a rotator cuff (or know how to pretend we did)?
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Are the alpine events like auto racing, with people allegedly showing up just for the crashes? As ABC's Wide World of Sports taught that us the "thrill of victory" is fleeting, but "the agony of defeat" is indelibly etched in the hippocampus.
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