Lindsey Van
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2009 Liberec | Individual normal hill |
Lindsey Marie Van[1] (born November 27, 1984) is an American ski jumper who has competed since 2002. Van won a gold medal in the inaugural women's ski jumping event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec and has a total of eight Continental Cup victories in her career.
In 2008, Van's knee cartilage was crushed on the landing of a practice jump; she underwent knee surgery and five months of intense rehab.[2] She returned to competition after six months but injured her knee again.[2] Van has experienced four knee surgeries and a ruptured spleen.[2]
Van was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics; she and other female ski jumpers claimed that their rights were violated because only male ski jumpers were permitted to compete in the Vancouver Olympics.[3] The appeal was unsuccessful.[4] Van characterized the Canadian legal system as "weak" and said the International Olympic Committee were "like the Taliban of the Olympics."[4]
Going into the Vancouver 2010 Games, Van held the K95 hill record of 105.5 meters at the site of the 2010 Olympic ski jumping events.[5][6] This mark was surpassed several times at the 2010 Olympic Games[7][8][9] and is now held by Simon Ammann with a jump of 108.0 meters.[10]
In 2011, it was announced that women's ski jumping on the normal hill would be included in the 2014 Winter Olympics.[2] Van said, "I was kind of numb when I heard. People expected me to be ecstatic, but I'd been after this for so long, it just didn't sink in at first."[2]
In July 2011, nerve tissues in one of her legs became a problem.[2]
On the appeal of her sport, Van has said, "You are up the in the air and for a minute it's as if you can fly. It's a feeling like nothing else I've ever felt, and as soon as I land, I just want to go back up to the top and do it again."[2]
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- ↑ https://twitter.com/lindseyvan/status/450105754934984705
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 5 Female Ski Jumpers Want to Be Added to Lawsuit Yahoo Sports, March 9, 2009[dead link]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Female ski jumpers lose appeal CBC News Vancouver, November 13, 2009
- ↑ Van wins women's ski jump title Associated Press via ESPN.com, February 20, 2009
- ↑ Female Jumpers Frozen Out At Olympics MSNBC.com, February 10, 2010
- ↑ Normal hill qualification. Vancouver 2010 Olympics, retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ↑ Normal hill first round. Vancouver 2010 Olympics, retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ↑ Normal hill final round. Vancouver 2010 Olympics, retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ↑ Whistler Olympic Hill FIS Ski Jumping, retrieved March 3, 2010.
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- Female ski jumpers
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- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
- Olympic ski jumpers of the United States
- Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- American sportswomen
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