For years the description usually found either right before or right after Lindsey Vonn’s name has been some version of “Olympic skier.”
It’s a years-long career that has taken her all over the world, bringing her a historic number of successes (including Olympic bronze and gold medals).
Skiing has also been destroying her body, race by race, crash by crash, for years — ensuring her fourth Olympic appearance, at the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea, will be her last.
With the end of competition on Sunday, the world meets now-former Olympian Lindsey Vonn, which she sounds okay with.
“I...
It’s a years-long career that has taken her all over the world, bringing her a historic number of successes (including Olympic bronze and gold medals).
Skiing has also been destroying her body, race by race, crash by crash, for years — ensuring her fourth Olympic appearance, at the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea, will be her last.
With the end of competition on Sunday, the world meets now-former Olympian Lindsey Vonn, which she sounds okay with.
“I...
- 2/25/2018
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
In his own words, last year was “tough” for Gus Kenworthy.
The 26-year-old freeskier, who earned a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics, faced burnout and a less-than-stellar number of podium finishes. He thought to himself, make it to 2018, make it to the South Korean Games.
Kenworthy came out publicly as gay in October 2015, on the cover of ESPN the Magazine, and remains the most visible Lgbt action sports competitor in the country. He was in the closet four years ago, in Sochi, Russia, but making it back as his true self would be a win beyond one person.
“I kind of had told myself,...
The 26-year-old freeskier, who earned a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics, faced burnout and a less-than-stellar number of podium finishes. He thought to himself, make it to 2018, make it to the South Korean Games.
Kenworthy came out publicly as gay in October 2015, on the cover of ESPN the Magazine, and remains the most visible Lgbt action sports competitor in the country. He was in the closet four years ago, in Sochi, Russia, but making it back as his true self would be a win beyond one person.
“I kind of had told myself,...
- 2/21/2018
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
American freeskier Nick Goepper returned to the snow on Sunday in Pyeongchang, South Korea, to defend his Olympic bronze medal in men’s slopestyle — and he did even better than that, winning silver.
His final score of 93.60, earned on his last of three runs in the event, came in just behind the 95.00 of Norway’s Oystein Braaten.
With his second-place finish, Goepper is the only athlete to medal twice in slopestyle, which was introduced at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
“It feels incredible,” he tells People of the win, not long after competing. “I really just wanted to come...
His final score of 93.60, earned on his last of three runs in the event, came in just behind the 95.00 of Norway’s Oystein Braaten.
With his second-place finish, Goepper is the only athlete to medal twice in slopestyle, which was introduced at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
“It feels incredible,” he tells People of the win, not long after competing. “I really just wanted to come...
- 2/18/2018
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Four years ago, Gus Kenworthy was one of three American men on the podium after their slopestyle skiing victory in the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Along with Joss Christensen, who took gold, and Nick Goepper, who earned bronze, the silver-medaling Kenworthy helped to achieve a rare country sweep — and it was a performance that would help push him to break another barrier.
The following year, Kenworthy announced he was gay on the cover of ESPN the Magazine, the first American action sports competitor to do so.
“I think Sochi, in a way, is the reason I came out,” Kenworthy,...
Along with Joss Christensen, who took gold, and Nick Goepper, who earned bronze, the silver-medaling Kenworthy helped to achieve a rare country sweep — and it was a performance that would help push him to break another barrier.
The following year, Kenworthy announced he was gay on the cover of ESPN the Magazine, the first American action sports competitor to do so.
“I think Sochi, in a way, is the reason I came out,” Kenworthy,...
- 2/17/2018
- by Adam Carlson and Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Maybe Nick Goepper would always have had something to prove.
Maybe, if it wasn’t his upcoming freestyle ski event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the 23-year-old medalist would be focused on, say, being the best surfer or being the best skateboarder or maybe having the nicest truck.
But he’s not thinking about any of those things, even if he wanted to. He’s thinking about his skiing, because that’s what everyone else is going to be thinking about, too.
“I think I can ski better and I’m going to ski better here,” he told People in Pyeongchang,...
Maybe, if it wasn’t his upcoming freestyle ski event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the 23-year-old medalist would be focused on, say, being the best surfer or being the best skateboarder or maybe having the nicest truck.
But he’s not thinking about any of those things, even if he wanted to. He’s thinking about his skiing, because that’s what everyone else is going to be thinking about, too.
“I think I can ski better and I’m going to ski better here,” he told People in Pyeongchang,...
- 2/17/2018
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Four years after he earned bronze in the men’s slopestyle event at the Winter Olympics — joining two other Americans in a rare single-nation sweep of the podium — freestyle skier Nick Goepper is back at the Games.
And make no doubt, he is going for the top spot.
Goepper, 23, recently sat down with People days before he is set to compete at the PyeongChang Olympics in South Korea. Among other topics, he talked about his plans when he hits the snow again in slopestyle (in which competitors perform a variety of tricks and jumps down a mixed-terrain course, not dissimilar...
And make no doubt, he is going for the top spot.
Goepper, 23, recently sat down with People days before he is set to compete at the PyeongChang Olympics in South Korea. Among other topics, he talked about his plans when he hits the snow again in slopestyle (in which competitors perform a variety of tricks and jumps down a mixed-terrain course, not dissimilar...
- 2/16/2018
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
At just 19, Nick Goepper made it to the peak of his sport in 2014 when he landed on the podium at the Winter Olympics in Sochi alongside fellow American freestyle skiers Joss Christensen and Gus Kenworthy.
But just months later, the bronze medal winner hit a severe low when he threw rocks at several cars in the midst of a bout of anxiety and depression while home in Indiana in August 2014. Authorities said he was charged with criminal mischief after coming forward voluntarily, but he later paid back his victims and apologized and the charge was eventually dropped.
Now 23, Goepper says...
But just months later, the bronze medal winner hit a severe low when he threw rocks at several cars in the midst of a bout of anxiety and depression while home in Indiana in August 2014. Authorities said he was charged with criminal mischief after coming forward voluntarily, but he later paid back his victims and apologized and the charge was eventually dropped.
Now 23, Goepper says...
- 1/16/2018
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
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