Far from home, far from the Peyton Manning watch and bounties and March Madness and spring training; smack in the two-year hole between the Olympic Games that bring her name briefly to the front of the public’s consciousness before sending it back to the well of snow sport obscurity, U.S. alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn has dominated her sport like few racers — like few athletes — in history.
On March 9 (before dawn in much of the U.S.) in Are, Sweden, Vonn, 27, clinched her fourth World Cup overall alpine championship, a cumulative title based on … More