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Vail’s Lindsey Vonn up for Sportswoman of the Year honor

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PARK CITY, Utah – It could be something about the name, or maybe the fact that they each dominate their respective sports, but both Vail’s Lindsey Vonn and Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountian, Vt.) have been nominated for the 2009 Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswoman of the Year award.

Fans are able to vote online at http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org until midnight on Sunday.

Vonn’s nomination comes on the heels of a record-breaking season, which included securing both the World Cup overall and downhill titles for the second consecutive winter, as well as the World Cup super-G title.



Adding to the highlight reel, Vonn swept gold in downhill and super-G at the February World Alpine Ski Championships in Val d’Isere, France, then cruised to her 19th World Cup win just two weeks after having a tendon in her right thumb surgically repaired.

The victory officially gave her the crown of most successful female alpine skier in American history.

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Despite skiing the remainder of the season with a splint on her hand Vonn captured five more World Cup victories following the World Championships to end the season with a U.S. record nine wins in a single season. She has won World Cup races in every discipline except giant slalom.

Jacobellis’ recognition is the result of another banner season in which the dominating snowboardcross racer earned her second World Cup overall title, winning five of the season’s nine competitions, as well as garnering one podium to boot.

She also took to the world’s stage in Aspen as she won the fifth X Games gold medal of her career. By the time the season was complete, Jacobellis had amassed enough SBX World Cup wins and podiums to mark her as the most successful snowboardcross athlete in the world.


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