Lindsey Vonn crashed during her final downhill World Cup race. She lost control, tangled in safety nets, and was airlifted for medical attention. Her Olympic status is now uncertain.
Her first career podium. The women's World Cup wins mark. A course-record 12 victories. The family reunions with her Italy-based sister. And a rare European race visit by her mother.
Lindsey Vonn, then Kildow, from the United States, celebrates on the podium after placing third in the World Cup women's downhill race in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 18, 2004.
Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, speeds down the 2.340-kilometer Olympia delle Tofane course on her way to take fifth place in a women's ski World Cup super-G event, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 20, 2008.
United States' Lindsey Vonn, right, poses for photographs with her mother Linda Krohn, center, and her sister Laura Kildow, at the end of an alpine ski women's World Cup downhill race, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 16, 2015.
Lindsey Vonn, then Kildow, from the United States, celebrates on the podium after placing third in the World Cup women's downhill race in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 18, 2004.
Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, speeds down the 2.340-kilometer Olympia delle Tofane course on her way to take fifth place in a women's ski World Cup super-G event, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 20, 2008.
United States' Lindsey Vonn, right, poses for photographs with her mother Linda Krohn, center, and her sister Laura Kildow, at the end of an alpine ski women's World Cup downhill race, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 16, 2015.
