--- title: Olympic Skiier Lindsey Vonn: Race Against Men description: Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn is ready for the next challenge in her career: to compete against men. canonical: https://time.com/4389549/lindsey-vonn-compete-against-men/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-30T15:11:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:51.474Z og:title: Lindsey Vonn Wants to Ski Against Men og:description: The Olympic gold medalist has set her next career goal og:url: https://time.com/4389549/lindsey-vonn-compete-against-men/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17b4a6ded9fe6e12/69889a34fb4eac803588e244/lindsey-vonn-ski-men.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4928 og:image:height: 2772 og:image:alt: Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Men's and Women's Downhill og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lindsey Vonn Wants to Ski Against Men twitter:description: The Olympic gold medalist has set her next career goal twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17b4a6ded9fe6e12/69889a34fb4eac803588e244/lindsey-vonn-ski-men.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lindsey Vonn Wants to Ski Against Men > Sponsored content. 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Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom—Getty Images by [Jessie Van Amburg](https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/) ## Jessie Van Amburg Jun 30, 2016 3:11 PM UTC Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn is ready for her next challenge—racing against men. “It’s something I hope I can do before the end of the career,” she told [USA Today](http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/06/lindsey-vonn-olympics). In addition to her gold medal in the [Women’s Downhill event](http://2010games.nytimes.com/events/alpine-skiing/womens-downhill/results.html) at the 2010 Olympics, Vonn is the most [successful female skiier](http://alpine.usskiteam.com/athletes/lindsey-vonn) of all time with 76 World Cup wins and five World Championship medals. “When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum,”she said. “I want to see what I’m capable of, and men’s racing is the next level.” “I think it’s important for me as a person, and I think it’s important for women in sports,” she said. She admitted that it might take longer than the years she has left in her career for that change to be institutionalized. 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