American Lindsey Vonn strapped on her skis on Wednesday (February 17), and brought home another Gold medal for the USA!
Talk for the two weeks prior had been about a bad bruise on her right shin (sustained during a slalom training run in Austria on Feb. 2) and that it might have kept her from skiing at all in the Vancouver Winter Games.
Though she was in very much pain Vonn, a reigning two-time World Cup overall champion, kept it together and pulled through to score the Gold in the women’s downhill ski event Wednesday. She is the first American ever to do so. American teammate Julia Mancuso took the silver.
Congratulations to Lindsey and Julia!