“To be successful, I had to be a lot more than a ski racer,” Lindsey Vonn, winner of four World Cup overall championships and the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, tells Entrepreneur.
It was a tenet Vonn’s father stressed throughout her ski racing career, during which time she worked on herself “as a business,” ultimately preparing for when she’d have to retire as a professional athlete and chart a new course.
That day came in February 2019 when Vonn was 34. She’d just won the bronze medal in women’s downhill at the 2019 World Championships held in Sweden and became the first woman racer to receive medals at six different world championships.
