Lindsey Vonn displays her two Olympic medals in a massive trophy case. Ted Ligety keeps his two Olympic gold medals at his parents’ house. Andrew Weibrecht displays his two Olympic medals in the lobby of an inn owned by his parents.
Mikaela Shiffrin?
She stuffed her 2014 Olympic slalom gold medal in the back of a sock drawer.
“I don’t think about it every day,” Shiffrin said. “I rarely think about it unless someone brings it up.”
Shiffrin’s life forever changed in Sochi on that February evening, when at 18, she became the youngest-ever Olympic slalom champion.