Get to Know Lindsey Vonn

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today, you'll hear from Lindsey Vonn who narrated the previous episode about Simone Biles. If you haven't listened to that episode, now is a great time to go back and check it out. Lindsey Vonn is a former alpine ski racer for the United States Ski Team. She’s won Olympic bronze and gold medals, two World Championship gold medals, and four overall World Cup titles. A New York Times bestselling author, she founded the Lindsey Vonn Foundation, which supports girls through scholarships, education, and athletics. [This episode originally aired August 2020.]

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0:00.0	This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:07.0	Welcome to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:10.0	Welcome to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:13.0	I'm Sadie from Nashville.
0:15.0	I'm 8 years old and I'm interviewing Lindsay Vaughn,
0:19.0	who was the narrator of last week's episode of Good Night Stores for Rebel Girls.
0:23.0	If you haven't heard last week's episode,
0:26.0	now is a good time to go back and check it out.
0:28.0	Lindsey, would you like to introduce yourself?
0:34.0	I'm Lindsay Vaughn.
0:35.7	I won the Olympics in downhill skiing.
0:40.3	I'm from Minnesota and I am currently engaged to Pekay-Suban of the New Jersey Devils and they have three dogs.
0:49.0	What makes you a rebel girl?
0:51.0	I mean I'm a rebel girl because I've always followed my dreams and I've set really high
0:56.4	goals for myself and I think that's what being a rebel really means you know striving for
1:01.3	greatness and being the best that you can be.
1:04.0	Simone had to make some hard decisions in order to pursue gymnastics.
1:08.0	What were some hard decisions you had to make on your way to becoming an Olympic skier.
1:13.0	I think every athlete honestly has to make hard decisions, especially if you want to be an
1:17.2	Olympian.
1:18.2	You know, I'm the oldest of five kids and my parents had to decide to move our entire family to Colorado from Minnesota.
1:27.0	And so that was a huge sacrifice for my whole family.
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