Vail Resorts Congratulates Lindsey Vonn on Becoming the Second Most Winningest Female Ski Racer in World Cup Ski History
Vonn is the First Skier Ever (of Either Gender) to Win Three World Cup Races at the Same Venue in Two Different Seasons
VAIL, Colo. – Dec. 4, 2012 – Vail Resorts and the entire Vail community offer their heartfelt congratulations to hometown hero, Olympic champion and the greatest American World Cup alpine ski racer of all time, Lindsey Vonn, on becoming the second winningest skier in women’s World Cup history with 56 wins after this weekend in Lake Louise.
Vail Mountain has supported Vonn throughout her career as her hometown mountain and Vonn now represents all seven of Vail Resorts’ world-class mountain resorts–Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood.
Vail Resorts Guests Can Now Race Against Vonn’s Time in EpicMix Racing
Beginning Dec. 15, through the third generation of EpicMix—EpicMix Racing, Vail Resorts guests will have the opportunity to see how they stack up against Vonn and share their results with family and friends through the Company’s wildly popular ski and snowboard application EpicMix. EpicMix Racing provides skiers a new way to experience ski racing at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado and Heavenly and Northstar in California and Nevada. When EpicMix first debuted two years ago, it offered guests a way to track their vertical feet skied and awarded digital pins for special on-mountain accomplishments. In its second season, EpicMix Photo was introduced and enabled guests to visually capture and share their experience on the
snow. Now with EpicMix Racing, skiers and snowboarders can try their skill running gates on a race course and automatically have their times compared to ski racing great, Lindsey Vonn, with gold, silver and bronze medals awarded based on achievement. Race times, digital medals, overall leader boards and leader boards with just family and friends will all be available on both the EpicMix website and mobile application.
For more information, visit https://www.epicmix.com.
Photo Credits: Roger Witney/Alpine Canada
It’s just the beginning of the race season and Lindsey Vonn is already tearing up the record books with a hat trick at Lake Louise this weekend, winning two Downhills and a Super-G race. At 56 World Cup wins, Vonn now stands alone in second place behind Austria’s Annamarie Moser-Proell who has 62. It’s the most World Cup wins by any American and the first skier ever of either gender to win three World Cup races at the same venue in two different seasons. Vonn also set a new women’s record this weekend with seven straight World Cup wins at one venue.
“Lindsey’s record-breaking performance this past weekend truly exemplifies what an extraordinary champion she is as very few athletes have ever so decisively dominated their sport as she has,” said Rob Katz, chairman and chief executive officer of Vail Resorts. “We’re incredibly proud to support Lindsey and wish her our deepest congratulations for breaking more records this past weekend. We’ll be cheering for her throughout the rest of this season.”Vail Mountain has supported Vonn throughout her career as her hometown mountain and Vonn now represents all seven of Vail Resorts’ world-class mountain resorts–Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood.
Vail Resorts Guests Can Now Race Against Vonn’s Time in EpicMix Racing
Beginning Dec. 15, through the third generation of EpicMix—EpicMix Racing, Vail Resorts guests will have the opportunity to see how they stack up against Vonn and share their results with family and friends through the Company’s wildly popular ski and snowboard application EpicMix. EpicMix Racing provides skiers a new way to experience ski racing at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado and Heavenly and Northstar in California and Nevada. When EpicMix first debuted two years ago, it offered guests a way to track their vertical feet skied and awarded digital pins for special on-mountain accomplishments. In its second season, EpicMix Photo was introduced and enabled guests to visually capture and share their experience on the
snow. Now with EpicMix Racing, skiers and snowboarders can try their skill running gates on a race course and automatically have their times compared to ski racing great, Lindsey Vonn, with gold, silver and bronze medals awarded based on achievement. Race times, digital medals, overall leader boards and leader boards with just family and friends will all be available on both the EpicMix website and mobile application.
For more information, visit https://www.epicmix.com.
Photo Credits: Roger Witney/Alpine Canada
About Vail Resorts
Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading mountain resort operator in the United States. The Company's subsidiaries operate the mountain resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado, and Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada, and the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Company's subsidiary, RockResorts, a luxury resort hotel company, manages casually elegant properties. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning, development and construction subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is www.vailresorts.com and consumer website is www.snow.com.
