It is possible that if Lindsey Vonn skied conservatively, she could have simply finished, which would have been a happy ending for the world. But as Lindsey Vonn once said: "I love pushing myself to the limit." That was always going to be her athletic epitaph. View this story and more Olympics coverage here.
Lindsey Vonn, pushing to the end, didn’t need storybook ending to inspire
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Lindsey Vonn looks down at the course ahead of the Olympic women's downhill on Sunday, Feb. 8 in Cortina, Italy.
