From Paris to Park City, Olympic Champion Lindsey Vonn is paving the way for future athletes. Kristen Kenney chats one-on-one with the ski racing superstar on h
Lindsey Vonn speaks to youth at the Winter Sports School in Park City , Utah, on Aug. 8, 2024, where her STRONGgirls program is now a part of the curriculum.
“It’s huge!” she tells Kenney with excitement. “We are seeing it at a global scale with just Simone, and you know, Katie Ledecky, and everyone in the Olympics, the WNBA, but what you don’t see is kids on the ground level who are looking up to those athletes who are looking to be something in their lives, and those women are paving the way for them to have even more success than what the women are having now.
“The biggest thing I have seen is a confidence boost,” Vonn tells Kenney. “That’s really my ultimate goal.”
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