Lindsay Vonn Olympic star does Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. Voon appears in a bikini on the Whistler Blackcomb for the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit edition.

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Vonn is one of several Winter Olympic athletes featured in the SI swimsuit editon. The other athletes being featured by the publication are snowboarders Hannah TeterClair Bidez and ski aerialist Lacy Schnoor.

SI says Vonn had accepted the invitation to pose because of the way Sports Illustrated had portrayed other athletes including Maria Sharapova.

Vonn told SI: “The pictures were always classy, they always looked really awesome,”  “It made me feel a lot more comfortable about the whole thing, knowing they had shot other athletes. It was a good opportunity for me to show everyone what I actually look like, because I’m always wearing a helmet when I compete.”

Vonn 25 will be competing in all five Alpine skiing disciplines in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. And what? She’s brought along a whooping 40 pairs of skiis!

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photos: Warwick Saint for SI

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