Yes, Lindsey Vonn understands the landscape. Tom Brady. Simone Biles. Novak Djokovic. “And LeBron,” she says in early January, shortly after her unprecedented comeback at age 40, “is only a few months younger than I am, and he’s still breaking records every game he plays, pretty much, so …”
Yes, Lindsey Vonn heard from all of you. That she’s “gone completely mad,” as one retired skier so sensitively put it. That she’s craving attention. That she should have stayed retired.
Last summer Vonn went to Paris, where Biles, 27, was the oldest U.S. gymnast to compete at the Olympics since 1952. Vonn watched Biles, she says, “far exceed what everyone believed to be the limits of a gymnast’s physical ability to perform” in her third Games.
