Lindsey Vonn’s career is defined as much by her resilience as by her speed, with injuries testing her limits time and again. Over two decades on the slopes, she endured a series of setbacks, whether it was torn ACLs, broken bones, concussions, or a devastating crash at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming that required major knee surgery. Yet, she refused to let injury end her story, pushing through grueling rehab sessions to return to the start gate. Her last return after 5 years of hiatus, that too, at 40 years of age, is a testament to her perseverance. But it isn’t a tumble on ice that still brings tears—it’s the empty spaces left by the people she’s lost.

In 2018, she scattered some of her grandfather’s ashes near the Olympic downhill in South Korea, a quiet act that said as mu

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