How Lindsey Vonn Is Adapting to Life After Skiing Retirement

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Three-time Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn is sharing a glimpse astatine her beingness much than 3 years aft retiring from skiing: "It ever feels truly weird to maine that I'm not connected a slope close now."

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In fact, though the three-time Olympic medalist retired from skiing successful 2019, she inactive finds herself missing retired connected each the enactment connected the slopes arsenic the somesthesia starts to drop.

"This is simply a precise hard clip of twelvemonth for maine due to the fact that the archetypal races are happening and it ever feels truly weird to maine that I'm not really connected a slope close now," Lindsey, 38, exclusively told E! News astatine the US Ski and Snowboard Gala connected Oct. 27. "But I americium adapting to beingness aft competition. I americium inactive challenging myself successful caller ways, but there's decidedly thing similar racing down an icy upland astatine 85 miles an hour. And determination ne'er beryllium thing similar it, truthful I'll conscionable effort to get my kicks wherever I can."

Another jock that besides recovered themselves stepping disconnected the upland earlier this twelvemonth was five-time Olympian Shaun White, who announced helium would discontinue from snowboarding aft competing successful the 2022 Winter Olympics.

And arsenic Lindsay—who presented Shaun, 36, with the beingness accomplishment grant astatine the gala—mentioned, watching his last tally successful February was a infinitesimal she'll ne'er forget.

"I person known Shaun for a precise agelong time, since helium was the flying tomato—the hairsbreadth is simply a small shorter but he's inactive the aforesaid Shaun," she shared. "But I consciousness similar we person been connected a akin trajectory for a agelong time, and it was large to spot his last contention astatine the Beijing Olympics and that was truly affectional for him—and besides for maine arsenic a spectator and arsenic idiosyncratic who has been done it."

Added Lindsey, "It was truly astonishing to ticker that infinitesimal and I americium honored to beryllium capable to contiguous the grant to him."

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Since leaving the halfpipe behind, the snowboarder has acceptable his focus on Whitespace, the progressive manner company that helium founded conscionable earlier his retirement. But Shaun isn't the lone 1 kickstarting marque caller ventures aft a monumental career. Lindsey besides has her eyes acceptable connected a fewer antithetic projects successful the adjacent future—one of which includes enjoying a acquainted pastime.

"I americium looking guardant to skiing, which I haven't said successful a while, but I americium truly excited for the winter," she shared. "I person my goggle postulation coming out, I person my caller skis enactment coming out, truthful galore breathtaking things. I person had a truly large summertime but I'm not excited for the cold, due to the fact that I ne'er am, if you cognize me, you cognize I hatred the cold—but I americium excited to ski."

-Reporting by Charles O' Keefe

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