{"id":1313360,"date":"2019-08-08T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/lindsey-vonn-still-going-at-top-speed-in-retirement\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:04:00","slug":"lindsey-vonn-still-going-at-top-speed-in-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/lindsey-vonn-still-going-at-top-speed-in-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn still going at top speed in retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Retirement hasn\u2019t slowed down Lindsey Vonn. The all-time winningest female skier in World Cup history has found new adventures like cliff diving with boyfriend and NHL defenseman P.K. Subban, finishing her memoir set to be published next year and serving as an executive producer of a film with Robert Redford. Vonn\u2019s never been one to sit back and take it easy.<\/strong>
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DENVER \u2014 Lindsey Vonn\u2019s certainly dived right into retirement \u2014 off a cliff and splashing into a lake feet first.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the many post-racing adventures for the all-time winningest female skier in World Cup history. Never one to sit back, she\u2019s still going at top speed since competing in her final ski race last February.<\/p>\n

The bustling life of Vonn includes that recent cliff-jumping excursion with boyfriend and NHL defenseman P.K. Subban , wrapping up her memoir in a book set to be published early next year, starting a line of beauty products, walking the red carpet , working with Dwayne Johnson on a sports apparel project and serving as an executive producer of a film with Robert Redford.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, Robert Redford (she\u2019s not at liberty to discuss the full details just yet).<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to take over the world, one business at a time,\u201d the 34-year-old Vonn cracked in a phone interview.<\/p>\n

With her schedule so packed, there\u2019s really been no time to miss racing. Maybe once the snow falls.<\/p>\n

She still feels the cumulative effects of all the tumbles and wipeouts over a career that included three Olympic medals, including downhill gold, and four overall World Cup titles. Her knees constantly throb and the right arm she broke nearly three years ago in a training crash still causes her trouble.<\/p>\n

Four months ago, she had a ligament repaired in her left knee. Her right knee is bone-on-bone.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou pay a price for throwing yourself down the mountain and I\u2019m going to be paying that price for the rest of my life,\u201d said Vonn , who just announced a partnership with the DICK\u2019S Sporting Goods Foundation to award $500,000 in scholarships through her own foundation. \u201cBut that\u2019s part of being an athlete \u2014 you sacrifice yourself and your body.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December, Vonn plans to make the trek to Lake Louise, Alberta, for the World Cup races and visit a course where she won so often it\u2019s now named in her honor. She\u2019s bringing her mom \u2014 and not her downhill skis. Her original plan last season was to step away after one final charge down the course in Lake Louise, but pain forced her to move up retirement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to race. I can\u2019t. I\u2019m too beat up,\u201d Vonn said. \u201cI need the break.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any chance of a comeback, say, down the road?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think so,\u201d said Vonn, who has no designs on a coaching career. \u201cThe biggest problem is my right knee. Maybe something will come up that could help me. But at this point I don\u2019t really foresee anything happening that\u2019s going to dramatically change my living situation, let alone my competition possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for her women\u2019s record of 82 World Cup wins, Vonn doesn\u2019t anticipate the mark standing for long given the pace of fellow American Mikaela Shiffrin, who at 24 already has 60 wins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure Mikaela will beat it. If not her, someone else,\u201d Vonn said. \u201cI hope someone beats it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vonn won\u2019t be tuning in to catch many World Cup races. It\u2019s too emotional. She was hoping to challenge the record of 86 World Cup wins held by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. Her banged-up body didn\u2019t allow it.<\/p>\n

Still, she closed her career in memorable fashion by earning a bronze downhill medal at the world championships in Are, Sweden, on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s off to other pursuits. Her memoir \u2014 \u201cRise: My Story \u201c \u2014 is scheduled to hit the bookshelves in mid-February. She\u2019s also serving as a global ambassador for Johnson\u2019s \u201cProject Rock \u201c collection, the actor\u2019s signature line of Under Armour gear.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the movie endeavor with Redford. They\u2019re still developing the script and should soon start casting.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably one of the coolest things I have ever been a part of,\u201d Vonn said.<\/p>\n

These days, she\u2019s game for about any sort of undertaking, even riskier ones like cliff jumping. She and Subban \u2014 who was dealt from Nashville to the New Jersey Devils in June \u2014 joined up with some friends to take the plunge at a lake north of Toronto. Vonn jumped into the water after a countdown, while Subban hesitated before eventually leaping.<\/p>\n

FYI: Her sponsor, Red Bull, does host a cliff-diving series.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know!\u201d Vonn proudly exclaimed. \u201cBut I can only go so high because my ear drums pop all the time. So that\u2019s kind of like close to the max or I rupture. I know my limits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her passion these days revolve around her foundation , which provides girls scholarships and programming for education, sports, and enrichment programs.<\/p>\n

Vonn also partnered with DICK\u2019S to establish the Sports Matter Scholarship for underprivileged youth athletes across the country. Even more, she\u2019s a member of DICK\u2019S Sports Matter Advisory Board , which includes Oakland head coach Jon Gruden, Arizona receiver Larry Fitzgerald, and beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings, to name a few.<\/p>\n

Vonn\u2019s days are definitely full in retirement \u2014 and way busier than she ever imagined.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really need a whole weekend off at some point,\u201d Vonn joked. \u201cBut it\u2019s been good. There are plenty of goals to achieve post-skiing for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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