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  • čas přidán 12. 08. 2024
  • Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn says the best advice she ever received was to just be herself. That meant that she didn’t change her technique, despite her critics. The doubts of coaches and cohorts motivated her, especially at the Olympics. But Vonn never stopped striving for greatness, focusing on physical fitness with Navy Seal-style training. Despite her success, Vonn still felt something was missing. She talks about self-doubt, motivation and living without the adrenaline rush now that she is retired.
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Komentáře • 121

  • @rushrush1209
    @rushrush1209 Před 3 lety +25

    82 wins, 137 podiums, 3 Olympic medals, 1 gold.. If she's a failure, then I'm certainly a failure too.

    • @banjoist123
      @banjoist123 Před 3 lety +2

      Unfortunately, I think it is often the people with the highest degree of perfectionism who achieve at her level. A blessing and a curse. It's what got her there, but also what prevents her from accepting anything but perfection.

    • @majajurcevic6098
      @majajurcevic6098 Před 3 lety

      20 cristal globes!

  • @aaronjohn6586
    @aaronjohn6586 Před 3 lety +3

    Just an amazing interview and so in depth, heartfelt, thoughtful and honest.

  • @Tommytwotone762
    @Tommytwotone762 Před 3 lety

    Graham I’m watching your videos more and more! Just really great stuff! I’m also asking people more questions to get their story. Your a great example in this distracted world. I love it and thank you!

  • @johannessayre703
    @johannessayre703 Před 3 lety +1

    as much of a pleasure as always. I remember when you didn't win at Beaver Creek one year and you were all tearful afterwards and said "I tried to give it my best, but my best wasn't good enough". Very touching and so misplaced since you were already outperforming by a couple orders of magnitude. Here's something you know more about than I do: what's the difference between working against the clock, vs. competing against others ? The dynamic of performing for an audience can lead me astray, while that objective measure I only have to relate to myself about. Cheers & best to you.

  • @000001willy
    @000001willy Před 3 lety +2

    Lindsay, you are a winner in my books. You were the best and most fearless woman skier on the world circuit when you were competing and were it not for your serious injuries you would certainly have achieved your goal of being GOAT. The reality is, you had a number of serious injuries that few world-class skiers recover from and manage to achieve the same high level of performance that you had before your accidents. That's amazing in anyone's books. I don't know what you plan for the future but I hope you find it and I hope that you and PK Subban continue to be happy.

  • @tioganh
    @tioganh Před 3 lety +3

    No Way you are not a Failure. You Rock Live Life be Safe.

  • @Von45Rose
    @Von45Rose Před 3 lety +5

    You’ve got grit kid.!!!
    I don’t know if it means anything coming from a total stranger but I couldn’t be more proud of your accomplishments.

  • @pauloverland8816
    @pauloverland8816 Před 3 lety +3

    LIndsey's was the most Humble in this video compared to others i've seen. she is the fastest woman on skis..Nuff said

    • @gregknipe8772
      @gregknipe8772 Před 3 lety

      was. get over it. was = was. no big step to grasp really. time to move on from a narcissist's decade.

  • @Gogalen789
    @Gogalen789 Před 3 lety +7

    Coming back from so many serious injuries on the world cup circuit has to be one of the biggest underlying achievements for her. Many skiers would have retired years before she did.

  • @richardvilla6194
    @richardvilla6194 Před 3 lety

    I loved watching her ski, she. Was and is awesome and beautiful.

  • @chrisxavier3147
    @chrisxavier3147 Před 3 lety +1

    You are, thanks for dragging down PK too

  • @BratislavMetulskie
    @BratislavMetulskie Před 3 lety +3

    a mindset of greatness, beautiful.

  • @timcross2510
    @timcross2510 Před 3 lety

    What any driven athlete has inside to propel them through agony for glory is often a drive to just feel ok. Winning isn't about standing on the top ,it's about keeping your head above water by winning. It took me decades to learn this. It took more decades to begin to love myself. Her first big step is to help others who are drowning. 99% of those people don't have god given talent to help them.

  • @markeaton2003
    @markeaton2003 Před 3 lety +3

    Do you know, how many millions of skiers, would only dream of winning just one world cup race? Not ever a gold medal.
    My Idol growing up was Billy Kidd, and his best was silver in Squaw Valley. But still what a hero and great role model for so many.
    You may feel you let yourself or someone down. That is because you are a great champion, in every ones eyes, but your own. America is a great country. No one should sellout to any other oppressive country, being fooled into believing that America is not Great or them self. God made you great. Modesty is a very good thing, in knowledge of your own greatness, such as yours.

  • @beckmc8939
    @beckmc8939 Před 3 lety +20

    Lindsey Vonn = GOAT! 💪⛷

  • @texan996
    @texan996 Před 3 lety +1

    You are a champion! No medal or # of medals needed to validate your greatness.

  • @russellmclatchey4162
    @russellmclatchey4162 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you for your candor.

  • @terencewinters2154
    @terencewinters2154 Před 3 lety +1

    Success is the distance you've traveled from where you started failure is looking back and saying it wasnt far enough. When you come to the point of accepting it being " it is what is " that you regain the self that is valuable regardless of external evaluations you may have internalized. As far as form is concerned she is completely correct in taking that coaches opinion its who she is. Shes tall long legged a little too upright not bottom gravity hugging like a cannon ball but length gives her longer leverage points for push offs . Not being top heavy it worked for her and she did everything in her power to fulfill expectations except possibly her own. Being wistful about it is surmountable wallowing in the what might have been is not. Keep moving lv life is embracing you .

  • @jeffholt3841
    @jeffholt3841 Před 2 lety

    It will take her a lifetime to learn gratitude. A trait you can not have to be a world class athlete or business person. It's a daily practice, she will have to focus on that as much as she did skiing in order to have peace within herself. Good luck lindsey

  • @charlesbromberick4247
    @charlesbromberick4247 Před 3 lety +2

    If you sincerely try to do your best, you can not be a failure.

  • @Morpheen999
    @Morpheen999 Před 3 lety +3

    This Lady was insane in her prime!

  • @terencewinters2154
    @terencewinters2154 Před 3 lety

    The highs can be balanced by the lows but it's important to be mindful of the fact one is never as good as ones best day or as bad as our worst day. By all measure in her niche sport shes a success even if her pinnacle was not as high as her expectations. It's also important for her to know that the down times are transitional ramp ups to something else and need to be approached with some patient non competitive endurance. So enjoy the journey lindsay as much as the result.

  • @Stan0619
    @Stan0619 Před 3 lety +4

    We love you LINDSEY!
    God bless America

  • @sunny689
    @sunny689 Před 3 lety

    Run PK! Run!

  • @jedi1967
    @jedi1967 Před 2 lety

    she is a success... when you fail you get up and you try again...

  • @kimbourne6237
    @kimbourne6237 Před 2 lety

    You are a gorgeous and beautiful elite athlete for your mental health good friends and positive people that are genuine and integral in. helping you get better.
    So wish you all the best ☺️🤗🤔🤨👌STAY POSITIVE

  • @linanicolia1363
    @linanicolia1363 Před 3 lety +11

    We see in full bloom the emptiness of a truly competitive soul. She won, but at what price ?

    • @karlk9316
      @karlk9316 Před 3 lety +4

      Your perception is your projection, not the incredible mind that we know as Lindsey Vonn.
      It is not just the winning, it is the experience of competing successfully in an incredible snow sport, at a level few will ever know.

    •  Před 3 lety

      Or maybe she's just an narcissist

  • @garymcaleer6112
    @garymcaleer6112 Před 3 lety +3

    Lindsey is right in there with Ole Babe Ruth and a host of other athletes who pushed the envelope of their skill.

  • @brucepedersen4032
    @brucepedersen4032 Před 3 lety

    People love you Lindsey. Come to Bali and live here. Oh, by the way, stay away from media ! They are not your friends !

  • @stihlnz
    @stihlnz Před 3 lety

    You did really really really well, you're an inspiration to heaps of people I know.

  • @Bob_Shy_132
    @Bob_Shy_132 Před 3 lety

    Yep. She's driven. Just remember Mamma, the world is a big place. And you were the best.

  • @BonnChnd
    @BonnChnd Před 3 lety +2

    She’s the best ever. So many World Champions. The Olympics is kind of a combo of luck and timing and injuries with 4 years in between.

  • @sgssgs4025
    @sgssgs4025 Před 3 lety +5

    she is the most notable skier of all time

    • @linanicolia1363
      @linanicolia1363 Před 3 lety +1

      yeah , we got that, now moving on and it is what she needs to do. Moving on, with gratitude but no resentment. She could have broken her back instead of legs...and she could be paralyzed....She needs to be grateful and happy she survived the challenge. She has been rewarded, so now, she needs to learn how to be a regular human being....thinking about others..

  • @terencewinters2154
    @terencewinters2154 Před 3 lety +3

    🙌⛷🧗‍♀️🥇🥈🥉🏆🎿🏅 now you can smell the air doing cross country skiing instead of smelling the gate and the clock.

  • @cdawg9149
    @cdawg9149 Před 3 lety +1

    I wonder if she still skiis just on the ski hill.

  • @linanicolia1363
    @linanicolia1363 Před 3 lety +7

    Hey Lindsey ! drop the ego ! look around and see the beautiful things and be grateful of what you got ! you have been blessed and now you have a problem with the competition instinct. Let it go. Your body will not tolerate your scrutiny. Learn to have empathy and sympathy towards others. You are way too much into yourself......

    • @mtadams2009
      @mtadams2009 Před 3 lety

      @@marc-andrehould7368 I get your point but in the end we all have to deal with cards we are dealt and move on. The pity pot takes us nowhere. We have all been there. Yes I have been seriously injured and my life has been changed and for a time I was on the pity pot but then I excepted my situation and moved on. You have to.

  • @robwilliamson6831
    @robwilliamson6831 Před 3 lety

    Lindsey Vonn is feeling something deep down inside herself saying she is a failure or not good enough. We know objectively this is not the case in so far as her ski career proves. Probably the best woman ski racer ever. But even the most accomplished people may have some deep down developmental trauma or shame that no matter her external successes is holding her back. I hope she gets the counselling she needs because she is good enough regardless of her skiing success.

  • @PosiP
    @PosiP Před 3 lety

    Lindsey, come back to Vail. Come back home.

  • @blienemann09
    @blienemann09 Před 3 lety

    What happened to your channel?

  • @slicedbreadrocks
    @slicedbreadrocks Před 3 lety

    Stenmark!!! 86

  • @braydontweed1402
    @braydontweed1402 Před 3 lety

    Ur a badass!!! Keep it up!

  • @jpallen719
    @jpallen719 Před 3 lety

    Successful as a human, woman, mother, daughter, friend, example.... the sports accomplishments are a side line thing, not the all important thing...

  • @bjs2022
    @bjs2022 Před 3 lety

    Good interview. Bad/stupid slider camera.

  • @MA_808
    @MA_808 Před 3 lety

    She needs to devote time in her life to helping those who cannot help themselves.

  • @tdog6374
    @tdog6374 Před 3 lety

    85/86 mph or kmph?

  • @timgarver4876
    @timgarver4876 Před 3 lety +1

    I love you Linsey your beautiful

  • @davidsims7936
    @davidsims7936 Před 3 lety

    Feels like a failure, I had knee surgery once, just once, you can't put me on skis with a gun. She rips a knee apart gets the surgery, does rehab, right off the mountain she goes. Multiple surgery a latter she can still walk on her own.

  • @mtadams2009
    @mtadams2009 Před 3 lety +5

    The comment section is a reflection of how ill our country is. Many of them are thinly vailed racism.

    • @tj-kv6vr
      @tj-kv6vr Před 3 lety

      i disagree a little. our country is very ill right now. she complains too much for me. she IS VERY blessed, but you would never know from listening to her.

    • @cswalker21
      @cswalker21 Před 3 lety +1

      Sometimes they even forget the thin veil.

    • @mtadams2009
      @mtadams2009 Před 3 lety +1

      @@tj-kv6vr I think she is struggling with retirement and to be honest I think her body is killing her. I have had a fraction of the injuries she has and my body hurts. I have had one tibia fracture and my knee bothers me, four is insanity. She has had more injuries than any athlete I know of. Injuries stopped her from reaching her goals. If you have ever been around any high achievers they are rarely content. Give her time and I am sure she will move on and find her next calling. I too am an adrenaline junkie but after my last bad injury, broken back I needed to find another outlet. I did and who would have ever guessed it would be woodworking. For me it was time to slow down, she will get there. And yes there was a time I too was depressed. Take care

    • @fiveo9127
      @fiveo9127 Před 3 lety

      i haven't read 1 racist remark yet. what are you talking about?

    • @mtadams2009
      @mtadams2009 Před 3 lety

      @@fiveo9127 Watch a few more of these short interviews. Some of them are just terrible, mostly about her dating and marrying black men. Especially about dating Tiger Woods.

  • @scottpollack1007
    @scottpollack1007 Před 3 lety

    LINDSEY WON 43 DOWNHILL CHAMPIONSHIPS AND SHE FEELS LIKE A FAILURE? OMG! I hope she finds “Peace” in her life because she definitely deserves it! I’ll pray for her!

  • @CarlosVazquez-dl6sn
    @CarlosVazquez-dl6sn Před 3 lety +4

    Hello Graham, Lindsey Vonn is great - I love strong women! - (German) Hallo Lindsey Vonn, Du bist großartig auch nach deiner Ski Karriere!

  • @darkcloud3243
    @darkcloud3243 Před 3 lety

    Lindsey 2 UFC 2021.....

  • @deweywatts8456
    @deweywatts8456 Před 3 lety

    I wonder what sports their kids do. Two athletes, them kids probably wont see an event any time soon if parents can help it.

  • @jasonjackson5696
    @jasonjackson5696 Před 3 lety

    Dang, she’s tall & I’ll bet strong as heck!

  • @ilikewaffles889
    @ilikewaffles889 Před 3 lety +2

    If she’s a failure then what am I?

    • @ssjb36
      @ssjb36 Před 3 lety +3

      She only feels like a failure.
      However, for you and myself we are in fact failures.

    • @ZAXN
      @ZAXN Před 3 lety

      ssjb36 lmao😂😂👌🏽

    • @linanicolia1363
      @linanicolia1363 Před 3 lety +2

      an emotionally secure person. She is a junkie to that training she received and she is unable to smell the roses. Very sad.

    • @mattzetts8777
      @mattzetts8777 Před 3 lety

      Flatbush Zombies are doooope

    • @youtubeaccount9058
      @youtubeaccount9058 Před 3 lety

      @@ssjb36 I cannot "like" that! Even if it gave me a chuckle.

  • @morr1655
    @morr1655 Před 3 lety

    its a sport and you picked it to do. quit whining.....get on with it

  • @ES-lh1tj
    @ES-lh1tj Před 3 lety

    She's hardly a failure. But I think her emotional instability and failure to control her emotions has cost her many things in life: ski race wins, love, joy, etc. Good that she's seeing a therapist.

  • @Ninja-iu4gg
    @Ninja-iu4gg Před 3 lety

    Lindsay need Jiujitsu

  • @jefflovejoy2997
    @jefflovejoy2997 Před 3 lety

    Lindsey. You know this already, but I am going to repeat it. "80-percent of life is just showing up." Look what you've done with the twenty-percent. Somewhere in that 20-percent is this: "No one is failure who has friends." Hell, an old boyfriend sent his personal jet to rescue you when you hurt yourself Austria.

  • @jimsheldon3788
    @jimsheldon3788 Před 3 lety +2

    Go talk to people living on the streets, that lost everything. Then if you feel like a failure, you need to get help.

  • @MidsierramusingBlogspot
    @MidsierramusingBlogspot Před 3 lety +5

    She has the identity of being a skier. When she is no longer a skier, what is she? She has to become more than a one trick pony.

    • @mtadams2009
      @mtadams2009 Před 3 lety +2

      I think she will. I have been injured many times too and at a point I moved on from what I thought I was. I was once an action sports person always pushing it, injuries took me down. Now I do a lot of woodworking, I never seen that coming. I still exercise but no more punishing my body. Funny thing is I love working with wood and I never even thought about it before. It found me. We all need a purpose to get up and move. Take care.

  • @outdoors1248
    @outdoors1248 Před 3 lety +1

    You’re a great athlete and a loose women

  • @hennyandcheeseballs8629

    You aren’t baby. Gimmie kiss.

  • @blackop101
    @blackop101 Před 3 lety

    failure?...gimmie a break

  • @bluetickfreddy101
    @bluetickfreddy101 Před 3 lety +4

    Poor thing
    We all feel so sorry for you
    Hilarious

  • @matteovalentino6267
    @matteovalentino6267 Před 7 měsíci

    Lindsdey Vonn mi iscrivo al tuo club fitness facciamo ginnastica assieme vedo la motzar in ciabatte ma l abbonamento non consente è l unico sim le poste che mi consente di contattare ma in Europa pago io no tu oh quando chiamo ciao saluta le ragazze California dello sci Matteo body miller per maschera a me che ho fatto una figuraccia sugli sci ero allenatore io di discesa libera e super gigante sciato in TV per caso dico ciao un abbraccio forte 💪saluti a tuo fidanzato 😊Matteo dino Valentino

  • @wachtamrhein3022
    @wachtamrhein3022 Před 3 lety

    Because she is...

  • @cappy2282
    @cappy2282 Před rokem

    Vonn got exactly what she deserved for talking trash about Trump 😅

  • @missiletm
    @missiletm Před 3 lety +2

    Maybe you should date white guys....

    • @theagbaman
      @theagbaman Před 3 lety

      But she was married to a white guy! C’mon!

  • @Mike-le6ed
    @Mike-le6ed Před 3 lety +7

    She went with tiger woods, of course she is a failure.

  • @my2cents395
    @my2cents395 Před 3 lety

    She chose a career that was going downhill.

  • @kerrytodd3753
    @kerrytodd3753 Před 11 měsíci

    She was a failure…..

  • @mikehawk8276
    @mikehawk8276 Před 3 lety

    Total respect to her but if you havent puked during a workout you weren't working out hard enough nuff said

  • @stevefairweather159
    @stevefairweather159 Před 3 lety +2

    You trashed Trump and it backfired badly. Call Megyn Kelly , maybe you girls can exchange new PR ideas

  • @timhannahan1768
    @timhannahan1768 Před 3 lety +2

    Trump 2020

  • @omarandpedro
    @omarandpedro Před 3 lety

    whine a little??

  • @rinohunter6190
    @rinohunter6190 Před 3 lety +1

    She sold out half of Americans with her Olympic statements about Trump, penchant for bad boys and not talking to your dad? Great skier but wiped out on some real character issues. I prefer Michaela’s style...but we still respect Vonns results, absolutely!

  • @Borat_Kazakh
    @Borat_Kazakh Před 3 lety +1

    Too bad she's a super star in a sport nobody has cared about since 1984. The median age of the active skier is in his 50s. For people desperate enough to watch women's pro skiing, the average age is probably in the 60s.

  • @donwhite8395
    @donwhite8395 Před 3 lety

    She is a failure in her love life. Poor choice of men.

  • @gerasrokas
    @gerasrokas Před 3 lety +3

    Trump 2020