“When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.”

American alpine ski racer

Lindsey Vonn is an American alpine ski racer. She won four World Cup overall championships, in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012, and took gold in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first such Olympic title for an American woman. Vonn also set records in the World Cup, with eight season titles in downhill, five in super-G, and three straight in the combined from 2010 to 2012. In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, the most by any skier, and she is ranked third all time among skiers, men or women, in super rankings.