Posted on 02/24/2018 7:31:02 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Skip Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. Turn our attention to the Olympics in PyeongChang, where all eyes will be on one of the most astounding athletes of all time — Lindsey Vonn.
Today she towers over downhill racing.
Vonn could end up the most victorious skier — male or female — since the invention of gravity. Or snow.
So fearless has been Vonn’s rise that she’s proposing that the Federation Internationale de Ski permit her to enter men’s competition in downhill.
A glimpse of Vonn’s joie de vivre is captured in a wonderful video of her finally meeting Stenmark, the Swedish super-skier whose record total of World Cup wins is now within her grasp.
The young woman invites Stenmark to watch her race. When she breaks his record, he promises. He knows that it’s by no means certain. But also that, barring tragedy, she’s on track to pass him by.
What’s Vonn going to do then?
At first, her proposal to compete in a men’s World Cup downhill seemed a bit chimerical. “Vonn was turned down so emphatically, there seemed little chance of a change in attitude,” Canada’s CBC reported.
Vonn, of course, isn’t taking no for an answer. “Put me in the dang race,” she says.
Now there are reports that a revived plan could result in a showdown this year or next on the Alberta slopes of Lake Louise. Wouldn’t it be something if the glass ceiling were shattered by a woman moving at 90 miles an hour?
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That’s a little stale, Marv.
She bashed my president. I don’t watch or listen to her.
She :
1) Was the girlfriend of Tiger Woods for a while.
2) Already said she will refuse to accept an invitation to visit the White House and meet with Trump if she won a gold and were invited.
Reads like a press release.
Hype to sell media views.
Love the early hype now tempered by being juxtaposed against the reality....
Didn’t win a gold. Won’t be invited.
RE: Didn’t win a gold. Won’t be invited.
Well, the title of this thread is an exaggeration then.
She was thinking too much about hating her President and not enough about downhill skiing.
With all that astounding athleticism, you’d think she could avoid tripping over her flapping jaws.
All the medal winners will be invited. Vonn won a bronze.
She stayed too long at the dance, well maybe DWTS will take her.
The yellow journalism crowd circling the wagons on their little tool. Horrible woman.
Astoundingly stupid.
Looks to me that it was actually TV that picked the O team, based on celebrity and Affirmative Action, and it shows.
Lindsey who.?
We won the gold in curling!!!
Counting FIS World Cup victories is like calling Pete Rose the greatest hitter of all time just because he had more hits than anyone else -- while ignoring the fact that his .303 lifetime batting average is something like #175 all time in Major League Baseball.
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