Lindsey Vonn’s bronze medal run during the downhill was clearly not satisfactory to her father.
Alan Kildow had praise for his daughter, but he made no secret of the fact that he was not satisfied with a bronze medal, and that she should have been more aggressive in her run.
“It’s great skiing, but it reminds me of something that Buddy Werner used to say. He said there’s two places in the race, first and last, and I only want one of them,” Kildow told Josh Peter of USA Today Sports. “She needed to go for it a little bit more. She needed to risk more.
“Just little, little spots. Just not quite risking enough. Not straightening the line out, just the ski was little … not quite carving in some places like it should have. But a great result. A great result.”
For her part, Vonn simply credited her opponents on a great race. Her father, who was seeing her live at the Olympics for the first time, was feeling a little bit less charitable in what was likely her final Olympics.
