Lindsey Vonn tells her Twitter critics: ‘I won’t back down’

I’m really happy for her.

“I still haven’t quite realized yet”.

She was among eight skiers not to finish. And while many critics tweeted at her to keep her mouth shut and stop being political, they ironically made it political by making Trump the focus.

Vonn acknowledged her rival at the bottom of the course and again after the race.

Team GB created a sensation by reaching the semi-finals of the women’s curling tournament after knocking out the world and defending champions Canada.

She also has expressed a strong desire to race in a men’s event – probably at Lake Louise at the start of next season – which would rule her out of the women’s event she has won 18 times and extend the process of reaching Stenmark’s record.

Vonn had hurt her knee multiple times and she fractured her arm so intensely that she still has 20 screws and a metal plate in her forelimb. She will be among the favorites when the women hit the course at Jeongseon. “I’m disappointed, but I’m not upset”, the 33-year-old told reporters. “I kept working hard and I’m really proud of this medal”. I think I’ll realize when I’m on the podium. “I thought I did great”.

“I’m sad. This is my last downhill”, Vonn told NBC. “Maybe I should have let the skis run a little more“.

Vonn added that she wanted to “win for my Grandpa” and wears the initials of her grandfather Don Kildow, who died in November.

Shiffrin is expected to contend for a medal in that event, so she withdrew from downhill to give herself enough preparation and recovery time. I was like ‘what happened, grandpa? Pick your spots, get yourself in good condition and ski well. “Our family never gives up, and I never gave up”.

That plan seemed overly ambitious, if not unrealistic, and was scrapped nearly immediately after high winds forced several events to be postponed to later days.

Three of the first four races in the Alpine program were postponed this week after winds of up to 72kph wreaked havoc with the schedule.

When it became clear that Lindsey Vonn would walk away from her last Olympic downhill with a bronze medal today and the finality of it began to sink in, her passion for the sport and its camaraderie shown through a flood of tears.

“It just depends on my knee”.

“I just tried to bring the best I could do and it was by far my best downhill race ever. Sofia just skied better than I did”, Vonn said, referring to the top finisher, Italy’s Sofia Goggia.

Lindsey Vonn says her body “can’t take another four years” after she became the oldest woman to claim a Winter Olympics alpine skiing medal. She skipped the downhill to step back into the snowboarding realm and will go through qualifying Thursday in the parallel giant slalom.