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5 things you didn’t know about Lindsey Vonn
Here are five funky facts that willl make you smile and love Lindsey Vonn even more!
A dream becomes reality!
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Lindsey Vonn is now the most successful female in the history of the FIS World Cup with her 63 career victories, and will undoubtedly add more wins to her tally during this season. We all know that she is an amazing skier, a hard worker and a legend.
But here are five funky facts that you may not have know about her:
Lindsey owns a small herd of cows and a goat
It started in 2005, when Lindsey chose a cow over a check of €5,000 for her win in Val d’Isère, France. She named it Olympe because it was an Olympic season. It then turned out that the cow was pregnant, and soon gave birth to Sunny. Later she had another baby that Lindsey named Karin, after her sister. Then Sunny, too, had two youngsters, a boy and a girl, that Lindsey named Don and Shirley after her grandparents.
In 2009, when Lindsey won gold at the World Championships she received a goat that she named Laura, after her other sister. Both the cows and the goat live near Kirchberg, Austria.
This season, Lindsey won a new baby cow for the victory in Val d’Isère. The latest addition to Lindsey’s herd is called Winnie, named after her physiotherapist Lindsay Winninger.
Lindsey Vonn and Winnie
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Leo Vonn guided Lindsey through rehab
In January 2014, Lindsey adopted a 9-month-old dog Leo from an animal shelter. He had been abandoned in a park and then hit by a car. Like Lindsey, Leo underwent a knee operation. Leo accompanied Lindsey as a kindred spirit through the rehab and gave her her smile back. Leo Vonn himself has achieved celebrity status on his own - you can follow his adventures on Instagram at instagram.com/LeoVonn – along with no fewer than 12,000 other fans!
Lindsey is a big fan of Roger Federer and played a match against him on a mountain summit
Lindsey loves to play tennis, and is a die-hard fan of the Swiss tennis champion Roger Federer. Her fandom is at the level that she will get up in the middle of the night to watch him play. After they met in 2009, she’s attended Federer’s games at several majors. Last summer, they played an exhibition game at the Swiss Aletsch glacier at 3,454 metres above the sea level. Federer won, but Lindsey held her own. The rematch might be on the slopes. Here's the summit meeting:
Lindsey has four siblings and a twin sister lookalike
Lindsey Vonn has two sisters and two brothers. Lindsey grew up in a family of snow enthusiasts, with brother Reed also having ski raced previously. Originally from Minnesota, her sister Karin now lives in Florida, while the youngest sister Laura is currently staying in Italy. 24-year-old Laura and the two brothers Reed and Dylan are triplets, but her sister Karin looks like Lindsey’s twin. Can you guess who is who?
Lindsey has already made her screen debut
Lindsey was a huge fan of the US show Law & Order. She used to watch it before going to bed or while working out. When NBC discontinued the series in spring 2010, she appeared as a guest star in the final episode. She played an administrative assistant at a teachers' union, trying to help the detectives to find an anonymous blogger who threatened to blow up a school. Afterwards she said that she might consider future acting jobs!
But in the meantime Lindsey has been starring in a documentary about her own arduous way back from injury and her glorious comeback: Lindsey Vonn – The Climb.
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