Lindsey Vonn: "My success has nothing to do with weight"
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In her personal commentary in The Denver Post (with reference to Austrian newspaper stories about her weight), Lindsey Vonn wrote, "If adding weight was the key to downhill success, everyone would be stuffing their faces with food. It doesn't work like that. You have to be agile and strong," she wrote. "It's frustrating as an athlete to be called overweight. . .I pride myself on how hard I work out and how physically fit I am. For them to say that was extremely aggravating. Read her entire article in www.denverpost.com.
What do you think? Does more girth get to the bottom of the course faster?
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mhueter
There's a good New York Times article about this, released today: http://vancouver2010.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/vonn-motivated-by-weight-comment/?ref=sports
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 8:19pm EST