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VAIL — Vail Resorts Wednesday will celebrate local Lindsey Vonn's success as Olympic gold and bronze medalist, three-time World Cup Overall champion and the winningest U.S. female skier of all time.
The company will host a homecoming celebration for Vonn on Wednesday at Vail Square in Lionshead. Vonn, who lives in the Arrabelle, resident recently won Olympic gold and bronze medals in Vancouver and captured her third consecutive World Cup Overall title, making her the winningest U.S. female skier of all time with 33 World Cup wins, including a U.S. record 11 this season.
The festivities kick off at 3:30 p.m. Supporters will be greeted with Lindsey Vonn commemorative pins and memorabilia as well as complimentary cookies, hot cocoa and entertainment, including a DJ and jumbo screen videos of Vonn's racing career highlights. Guest speakers including Co-President of Vail Resorts' Mountain Division John Garnsey, Ski Snowboard Club Vail Executive Director Aldo Radamus and Vail Mayor Dick Cleveland. Former Olympian Chad Fleischer will take the stage and introduce Vonn at approximately 4 p.m. followed by a special children's press conference with the ski racing champion.
“We could not be more proud to welcome Lindsey home to Vail after a season of unprecedented success on both the World Cup and Olympic stages,” said Garnsey. “Lindsey's unwavering work ethic and poised representation of our country, our community and alpine skiing continues to be an inspiration to all of us at Vail Resorts and particularly to the next generation of young athletes following in her tracks.”
Guests who ride one of several exclusive “Welcome Home Lindsey” cars on the Eagle Bahn Gondola throughout the day can register to win one of five 2010-2011 Epic 7-Pack Passes. Winners will be announced by Vonn at the conclusion of the homecoming celebration in Vail Square. New this year, the Epic 7-Pack is a seven-day unrestricted pass that skiers and snowboarders can use at any one of Vail Resorts' five mountain resorts and Arapahoe Basin anytime during the season for a price of $449, or almost 35 percent off of a single-day lift ticket price.
Vonn fans can follow Lindsey through her ski racing career this past year via www.LindseyIsEpic.com. The site has 27 webisodes and interviews with Vonn, chronicling Vonn's training for World Cup events in in Vail to pre-season fitness sessions in the gym to World Cup race footage, along with some surprises, including Vonn's pet cows and goat.
In addition to the homecoming celebration for Vonn on March 31, Vail's 2010 Winter Olympians — including four-time Olympian Sarah Schleper, ski-cross racer Chris Del Bosco and Paralympian Ralph Green — will be recognized during Spring Back to Vail, between free concert performances by Robert Earl Keen and Wyclef Jean on April 17.
The company will host a homecoming celebration for Vonn on Wednesday at Vail Square in Lionshead. Vonn, who lives in the Arrabelle, resident recently won Olympic gold and bronze medals in Vancouver and captured her third consecutive World Cup Overall title, making her the winningest U.S. female skier of all time with 33 World Cup wins, including a U.S. record 11 this season.
The festivities kick off at 3:30 p.m. Supporters will be greeted with Lindsey Vonn commemorative pins and memorabilia as well as complimentary cookies, hot cocoa and entertainment, including a DJ and jumbo screen videos of Vonn's racing career highlights. Guest speakers including Co-President of Vail Resorts' Mountain Division John Garnsey, Ski Snowboard Club Vail Executive Director Aldo Radamus and Vail Mayor Dick Cleveland. Former Olympian Chad Fleischer will take the stage and introduce Vonn at approximately 4 p.m. followed by a special children's press conference with the ski racing champion.
“We could not be more proud to welcome Lindsey home to Vail after a season of unprecedented success on both the World Cup and Olympic stages,” said Garnsey. “Lindsey's unwavering work ethic and poised representation of our country, our community and alpine skiing continues to be an inspiration to all of us at Vail Resorts and particularly to the next generation of young athletes following in her tracks.”
Guests who ride one of several exclusive “Welcome Home Lindsey” cars on the Eagle Bahn Gondola throughout the day can register to win one of five 2010-2011 Epic 7-Pack Passes. Winners will be announced by Vonn at the conclusion of the homecoming celebration in Vail Square. New this year, the Epic 7-Pack is a seven-day unrestricted pass that skiers and snowboarders can use at any one of Vail Resorts' five mountain resorts and Arapahoe Basin anytime during the season for a price of $449, or almost 35 percent off of a single-day lift ticket price.
Vonn fans can follow Lindsey through her ski racing career this past year via www.LindseyIsEpic.com. The site has 27 webisodes and interviews with Vonn, chronicling Vonn's training for World Cup events in in Vail to pre-season fitness sessions in the gym to World Cup race footage, along with some surprises, including Vonn's pet cows and goat.
In addition to the homecoming celebration for Vonn on March 31, Vail's 2010 Winter Olympians — including four-time Olympian Sarah Schleper, ski-cross racer Chris Del Bosco and Paralympian Ralph Green — will be recognized during Spring Back to Vail, between free concert performances by Robert Earl Keen and Wyclef Jean on April 17.
