Lindsey Vonn, perhaps America’s greatest skier ever, won the country’s first gold medal in Olympic Women’s Downhill Wednesday afternoon. Fellow American Julia Mancuso took silver.
After Winning Gold, Lindsey Vonn Opens Up
Neither rain nor snow nor having one good leg will keep Lindsey Vonn off that podium. A scant couple weeks after sustaining a shin injury during a training run, the American slopes star took home the gold in the women’s downhill competition, and sounds as surprised as anyone:
Fellow American Julia Mancuso took the silver medal; both women will hit the mountain again Thursday morning, at 9:30 a.m. Vancouver time, to compete in the super-combined downhill event.
Read Article >Lindsey Vonn Wins Women’s Downhill Gold, Mancuso Takes Silver
American Lindsey Vonn has won gold in the Women’s Downhill, the first such medal for the United States in the event.
Vonn could not have asked for a better day, with incredible weather and sunshine blanketing a downhill course that many consider to be the most difficult ever in women’s downhill Olympic competition. She did not seem intimidated, however, as she attacked the mountain with confidence, beating everyone else down by more than a half-second.
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