It's easy to become cynical about sports these days, but there are some athletes who deliver performances that are truly uplifting and inspiring.
Lindey Vonn winning the World Cup in St. Moritz on Friday is one of the most remarkable and astonishing performances I can think of in skiing if not all of sports.
Before Friday, the oldest woman to ever win a World Cup race was Federica Brignone at the age of 34. Brignone herself is a force of nature and one of my favorite skiers as she sends it with such passion (she is currently recovering from a major knee injury and I am hoping will return for the Olympics). Vonn is 41. 41!
Most of you know her story. She won in every discipline on the world cup and fell just short of what was then Ingemar Stenmark's record of 86 world cup winds with 82 when she retired. She is unquestionably the greatest speed skier of all time.
She retired in 2019. A knee replacement and a hell of a lot of hard work later, she is on top of the world, with Stenmark in her sights again (although she won't catch Mikaela Shiffrin), not to mention a shot at Olympic gold in Cortina.
Simply incredible.
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