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This year the 2010 winter Olympic Games were held in Vancouver. Many athletes from all over the world have been taking home medals and USA representative Lindsey Vann brought home the gold for woman’s downhill alpine skiing. Learning to ski at Buck Hill in Burnsville Minnesota, being an Olympic athlete has always been a dream of Vonn’s. This event will forever be a highlight in her life.
Lindsey Vonn was the oldest of five children. She started skiing at the age of two. Her first carving and gliding happened on the 300-vertical-foot runs at Buck Hill, a "bump" equipped only with a tow rope, near her childhood home in suburban St. Paul, Minn.
“Working at Buck Hill has shown me a wide variety of levels and dedication a person puts forward to excel in their sport” Jesse Gisenger, a Buck Hill employee says. “Every day I see kids who can ski like the pros and adults experiencing the hills for the first time. Those adults are probably just learning for fun and don’t plan to go to the Olympics. The kids on the other hand might have that dream and that’s why they’re here.”
Under the guidance of Coach Erich Sailer, she was encouraged at an early age to find her own technique and to learn how to ski fast. She showed her talent on the local level that when she was 10. “I think it is so cool that she grew up and got her training here at Buck Hill!” Says Cassie Torbenson, a sophomore at Eastview High School and a member of Eastview's alpine ski team. “The fact that I’m training and racing in the same place Lindsey Vonn started out makes me believe anything is possible. It doesn’t matter where you come from, you can go as far as you want.”
The Vonn family picked up and moved to Vail, Colo., so that she could ski on world-class slopes. The move seemed to pay off early on, as she became the first U.S. female to win the prestigious Trofeo Topolino youth competition in Italy, and she won three Junior World Championships medals and two U.S. titles as a teenager.
She started out strong by capturing the blue riband downhill title and then took bronze in the super-G. Now Lindsey has made her mark in the Olympics. Completing in woman’s downhill and slalom in one day she did win the Gold medal for downhill.
Coming into the Vancouver Games, Vonn was determined to win three gold's. Lindsey Vonn's Olympic Games ended when she crashed out of the slalom, but the American insisted she met her expectations and would go home happy.
The extent of Vonn’s injuries have caused some people to clam she is whining and blowing them out of proportion. Cassie Torbenson thinks that the media is the cause for her break from skiing being such a big deal in the eyes of the public, “She doesn’t complain and it’s not her fault that is what everyone chooses to focus on instead of her accomplishments” she said.
Vonn, who is chasing a third overall World Cup title and has already won several world championship crowns, insisted she would leave happy despite missing out on three possible podium finishes.
All in all the 2010 Olympics were an exceptional experience for Vonn and all the participating athletes.
“The few weeks they were on I was dedicated to watching and am very impressed with Lindsay Vonn’s performance” says Debra Philips an Olympic game fan. “I hope she can come back for the next games and fulfill her goal of three gold’s with no injuries!”