PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The hundreds of training runs. The gym workouts that would kill a lesser person. The time spent away from family and friends. The injuries.
So, so many injuries.
For eight long, often agonizing years, Lindsey Vonn focused on this day. This one run. She didn’t need another Olympic medal to secure her legacy, that was done long ago with her gold medal in Vancouver and all those World Cup victories.
But whether you call it closure, karmic payback or something else, she wanted to prove she hadn’t been beaten. Couldn’t be beaten.