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:
Lindsey Vonn Gets The Gold
“I’ve worked so hard for this and to be able to get the gold medal is so awesome,” she said. “I’ve given up everything for this. [...] I didn’t quite know what to expect at the bottom but I knew I had to keep it together because that’s where I lost the World Cup so I knew I had to keep it together. I’m just so grateful I made it down.”
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.
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