When Does Lindsay Vonn Ski Again

Lindsey Vonn recently returned from a European vacation, skiing in France with a few family members and friends.

She said it was the first ski vacation she's had since she was ix years sometime.

"Information technology's a much dissimilar experience at present," the Olympic gold medalist said Monday. "I enjoy kind of going slow – I mean, peradventure not as slow every bit I should."

Nearly three years after retiring, Vonn, 37, said she remains as competitive as ever – giving friends a head start on the mountain, for instance, and racing to catch them. She will not be competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the first Games since a string of injuries ended her professional career. Merely she said she's enjoyed the new phase of her relationship with the sport.

"I recollect in a lot of means it fabricated it easier that my decision was kind of made for me, in the sense that my body really was telling me that that enough was plenty," Vonn said. "I remember information technology would exist very hard for me to just terminate on my ain considering I honey it so much."

1 of the most busy U.Due south. female skiers in history, Vonn competed in iv Winter Games and was, at one point, arguably the face up of Squad United states. She won three Olympic medals in her career, including a gold in downhill in Vancouver, on height of 82 victories in World Cup races. She retired in February 2019 after winning bronze in downhill at the world championships.

Vonn said she was "obviously sad" and "a little bit resentful" in the immediate aftermath of her retirement. She wanted to continue racing and said she would accept tried to compete in Beijing if her body had held up. But in time, she's both processed those feelings and tried to spend time appreciating what she achieved in her career. Working on her new memoir, "Rise," has helped.

"I think in general it was very therapeutic," Vonn said. "Life is totally unlike once I retired. So I recollect it was an of import time for me to exist able to expect back and remember my journey, capeesh my journey and exist proud of where I am today.

"I remember sometimes when you're in the moment you lose perspective of how hard you've worked and how far you've come. And I definitely, over again, think I had a different perspective afterward a while of being retired."

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In the book, which was released Tuesday, Vonn takes readers through her early days in the sport – she and her male parent started mapping out her path to the Olympics when she was 9 – and her feelings at key junctures along the fashion. She writes nearly feeling overlooked and insecure as a teenage skier, for instance, and about the decision to use men's skis midway through her career.

Vonn besides writes in detail nearly her battle with depression, which she managed throughout her career, in part with medication. She credits a new therapist with helping her work through retirement, which she describes as "harder than whatever of my injuries, harder than anything I've washed."

"I've been all over the spectrum, from thinking I didn't need a therapist, to having a difficult time opening upwards to someone, to where I am today," Vonn writes in the book. "Eventually, I came to realize that y'all won't just wake up one solar day and discover that all your bug are gone. No one tin can practise everything on their own — not even someone as independent and stubborn as I am."

Though it might feel a chip foreign, Vonn said she's looking forward to but being a "regular spectator" for the upcoming Wintertime Olympics, which begin Feb. 4. It volition help that the first Games after her retirement are being held in Cathay, at a venue where she's never raced.

"I think if it were somewhere else, I would always recall, 'Well, I could have skied that section better,' or I would've wanted maybe to ski at that place more," she said. "Because information technology's a new venue, because I'm retired, I think I'm going to be able to watch these Olympics and just be excited for my teammates."

Contact Tom Schad at tschad@usatoday.com or on Twitter @Tom_Schad.

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