With her super-G victory on Friday at the World Cup finals, Lindsey Vonn grabbed her third straight overall season title. She now has 33 career World Cup wins, the most of any American. "This was the dream season ... I am very, very happy," Vonn said.
Boasting a "Best in the World" slogan, the U.S. Ski Team left Torino with a total of two Alpine medals. This time, their eight medals represent the highest total for a U.S. team at any Olympics and are twice as many as any other country's total.
Much of the talk before the Alpine events kicked off at Whistler Creekside revolved around Lindsey Vonn. While the American star got her long-awaited gold, it was the German team that came away as the biggest winners at the Vancouver Games.
Swiss and Italian skiers found the winning edge for the first time in many years, while the highly-acclaimed Austrian "Wunderteam" faltered. Individually, Bode Miller and Aksel Lund Svindal were the stars of men's Alpine, with three medals apiece.
Vonn in Vancouver: Joy and pain Lindsey Vonn arrived in Vancouver to high expectations and enormous fanfare. Then came shocking injury news, apprehension, heroic performances, another injury and drama involving a teammate. Two words sum up Vonn's Games: joy and pain.
Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso have made big headlines in Whistler, but eight other U.S. women's Alpine team members are also ready to surprise.
A re-energized Bode Miller has given the 12-man U.S. men's Alpine squad a huge boost at Whistler Creekside. See who else has gold-medal potential.
The Olympic Alpine skiing program consists of ten medal events, five each for men and women: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and super-combined.
Lindsey Vonn
and Bode Miller, have found great success in these Olympics by facing
two completely different realities. How do the weight of expectations affect the world's best skiers?
NBC Alpine analyst Christin Cooper breaks down what makes Lindsey Vonn so good at Alpine skiing, event-by-event.
Impressions of the Alpine skiing competition at the 2010 Vancouver Games are shared from a high perch.
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