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This week I didn’t have to do any work; the ESPYs did it for me. They filtered through a stellar list of nominees to pick Lindsey Vonn as Best Female athlete. That award comes quick on the heels of her landing Best Female US Olympian at L.A.’s Nokia Theater.
Yes…it’s a popularity contest, but the fans know best, and I’m a big fan of hers.
She won the gold medal at the 2010 Olympics in downhill—an American woman took first. She’s also won three consecutive overall World Cup championships—only the second woman to accomplish this. All those Olympic medals and Cups and Championships make her the most successful American skier in history.
A Minnesota lass, her parents put her on skis at the tender age of two. When she was 10 she met her personal heroine and role model, Picabo Street. Her most unusual trophy is Olympe -- a cow instead of a check she chose for winning a race in Kirchberg, Austria.
Catch her eye by calling her by one of her nicknames: Kildon, Don Don and The Don. All playing on her maiden name Kildow.
Vonn trains six to eight hours a day, six days a week. One crazy core exercise has her balancing on a tightrope in a squat position while throwing a medicine ball at different angles against a wall.
When she needs motivation in the gym, Vonn looks to the Winter Games. The Olympics are “always in the back of my mind,” she says.
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