Posted on 02/08/2026 4:28:48 AM PST by janetjanet998
Lindsey Vonn crashes early in Olympic downhill, taken off the mountain in a helicopter
The date: 1936
The place: Berlin, Germany
The Nazi athletes proudly march into the stadium.
Now let us try your post and lets make it about one of the German athletes in the procession.
“Yes, this not about politics. Great athlete, pushed hard.
Folks who worry about her politics - get off your ass and give it a try.”
I personally know 2 college athletes who tore their ACL. It’s a 6 month recovery after surgery. What was she thinking????
Now she can rake it in with Ben Gay commercials
I didn't drag politics into this, SHE did.
What are you paying?
Lindsey Vonn has had so much publicity lately that I did not even know that the USA currently has a great downhill skier. Breezy Johnson WON the GOLD in the same downhill race where Lindsay Vonn just crashed.
It shows how out of whack our so-called news, even sports news, is. I do not follow skiing at all except a little bit during the Olympics, but it this is extreme. Will tomorrow’s Sports Pages show a picture of the gold medal winner or the crash?
Two French commentators talking in French, Vonn gets into trouble: “Oh no…”
Government pays a good deal of the olympic freight, and I pay the government.
This olympic spot wasn't a one time deal. Vonn has been on the US ski team all season and finished in the top three in 5 downhill events this World Cup season.
Proving she's one of the best in the world and her spot on the US ski team isn't a fluke.
Even complete arthroplasty doesn’t take 6 months to recover from. For athletes though, it’s the rehabilitation process that takes longer. If it’s just arthroscopic surgery, recovery time can be less than a week.
Surprised at the support the wokesterette has here.
Why does the FCC allow NBC to display the LIVE icons when its nothing but. Even slo-motion video claims ‘live.’
Replays ‘live’
What a crok
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As others have stated, Vonn is the one who reprehensibly and ungratefully injected her putrid politics into it. She simply couldn’t resist it, due to her celebrity status.
If she hadn’t shot off her mouth overseas in foreign countries about this country so many of us love and appreciate, and which has done so much for us, I might have supported her, as many others might have as well.
But she did denigrate our country while overseas. While I try not to take satisfaction in the misfortune of other people, I take grim note of the irony of her failure. Even then, she will get all the kudos about the danger she faced, and they won’t mention she did it all for her own advancement, not the elevation of the United States on a world stage.
Lindsey Vonn is Megan Rapinoe with a prettier face. But she will get her fame for being so “tough” and she will bank on that until the suckers run out.
If she were a team player, she would have stepped aside to let a younger athlete compete. But she didn’t, and she will take that to the bank until her good looks desert her.
But Lindsey Vonn doesn’t need to worry-there are plenty of corporations trying to milk the female superwoman market, and they would have done the same with Megan Rapinoe, except Rapinoe is wholly unattractive both physically and personally. So she can and will make a lot of money.
They will do all kinds of puff pieces on her, talk about how bold and strong she was, and present her as a role model, because they still want to push the “women need role models” crap, even though they have had role models aplenty for decades, and always have. They just want HER ilk as a “role model”.
I will always see her in the same light I have always seen Jane Fonda. Oh, she will be wealthy and comfortable, and will always have lemmings of all types fawning over her.
But to me and many others who won’t forget, she will be Jane Fonda.
She was so desperate for that last payday. Oh well.
Lest anyone forget…from 2017….
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3611541/posts
Lindsey Vonn: I won’t be representing US President at Winter Olympics
cnn.com ^ | 12/7/17 | Christina Macfarlane, Ursin Caderas and John Sinnott
Posted on 12/7/2017, 10:56:33 AM by ColdOne
St Moritz, Switzerland (CNN)A number of US athletes have spoken out against Donald Trump during his presidency — and skier Lindsey Vonn has become the latest to have her say. Targeting Olympic gold at February’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Vonn is in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where she spoke passionately about what it means to compete for the US ski team. “Well I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the president,” Vonn told CNN’s Alpine Edge.
Lindsey Von Krash
Pathetic. Well, she will get her money regardless.
The Agony of Defeat
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