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Lindsey Vonn: The greatest ski racer ever? |
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Friday, January 13, 2012 08:50 |
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Ski Magazine fuels the fire with this: Lindsey Vonn is a good ski racer. But how about this: “Lindsey Vonn is the greatest racer ever.”
It’s an outrageous statement, and one we haven’t seen in any other publication, American or European, dare to make. But give it some thought, do the math, and it begins to look increasingly sane.
Consider, for a moment, the “unbeatable records” of sports:
- 73 (home runs in an MLB season): Barry Bonds couldn’t have done it without PEDs, now banned.
- 100 (points in an NBA game): The game has changed, and there’ll never be another Wilt Chamberlain. (Kobe Bryant put up 81 once. Michael Jordan’s best: 69.)
- 11 (NBA championships won by a single player): In his 13 seasons, the great Bill Russell collected 11 rings with the Boston Celtics.
- 511 (career MLB wins): You’d have to win 26 per season for 20 years to catch Cy Young.
Then there’s this one:
- 86 (career World Cup ski racing wins): If you raced during the reign of Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark, you were competing for second place in almost every race.
... So is Vonn, at age 28 and evidently skiing better than ever, on track to catch Stenmark?
Read more of Ski Magazine's argument about Lindsey Vonn.
The Vail resident's quest continues this weekend with three downhills and a Super G at Cortina, Italy.
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