Olympian Lindsey Vonn won’t say if she’d visit Trump’s White House in 2025

U.S. Olympic gold medalist alpine skier Lindsey Vonn mentioned in a 2017 interview that if she have been invited to President Donald Trump’s White Home, she would decline the invitation. However in 2025, she was not so fast to make her refusal recognized.

Fox Information Digital requested Vonn if she would settle for an invite from the White Home after the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Media Summit on Tuesday.

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Lindsey Vonn, proper, reacts after receiving her bronze medal within the ladies’s downhill in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018. (AP Photograph/Charlie Riedel)

“To start with, I wish to say that each Olympic athlete from Crew USA is often invited… it has nothing to do with successful a medal or not,” Vonn mentioned.

“I am not going to reply that query as a result of I am simply not going to reply it. I wish to hold my passport,” she added.

Vonn defined her preliminary refusal to go to the White Home in December 2017, simply earlier than the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeonchang.

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This file photograph exhibits Lindsey Vonn at a press convention discussing her future on the Sochi Olympics, World Cup season and 2015 World Championships in Gold Peak, Vail, Colo. (AP/file)

“Completely not,” Vonn mentioned when requested if she wished to come back alongside CNN interview from 2017. “No. However I’ve to win to be invited. No, truly I believe each American workforce member is invited, so no, I am not going.”

Vonn additional urged that she didn’t wish to symbolize the president.

“Effectively, I hope to symbolize the folks of the US, and never the president,” Vonn mentioned on the time. “I take the Olympics very significantly and what they imply and what they symbolize, what it means to stroll underneath our flag on the opening ceremony. I wish to symbolize our nation properly. I do not assume there are lots of folks in our authorities proper now who’re doing that.”

Vonn, 41, emerged from a five-year retirement final 12 months to interrupt the document for oldest podium end on the Alpine Snowboarding World Cup.

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Lindsey Vonn of the USA wins the bronze medal in the course of the Alpine Snowboarding Girls’s Downhill on the Jeongseon Alpine Middle on February 21, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Photos)

Now she is eager to return to the Olympics in February.

Vonn is predicted to race for the primary time this World Cup season in St. Moritz, Switzerland, beginning December 12.

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