Secret Swimsuit

Secret Swimsuit

Check Out This Years Olympians In Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

When American skier Lindsey Vonn was on the cover of last week's Sports Illustrated posing in a ski racer's aerodynamic tuck position, she wore no helmet, which allowed her long blond hair to spill across the page.

This week, America's best Olympic medal hope at the Vancouver Games has ditched a lot more than just her helmet for SI's annual swimsuit issue, in which she appears in a bikini on a Canadian mountaintop.

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Vonn is one of several Winter Olympic athletes depicted in the publication, which hit newsstands Tuesday. The others are snowboarder Clair Bidez, ski aerialist Lacy Schnoor, and snowboarder Hannah Teter. In a story posted at the magazine's Web site, Vonn said she accepted the invitation to pose because of the way Sports Illustrated had portrayed previous athletes, including Maria Sharapova.

"The pictures were always classy, they always looked really awesome," Vonn told SI's Tim Layden. "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, flew from Utah to Vancouver yesterday, bringing about 40 pairs of skis. She will race in all five Alpine skiing disciplines, and is a favorite for medals in three of them, including Sunday's super combined event.

According to Lindsay's husband, Thomas Vonn, who acts as his wife's manager on the ski circuit, only a very small circle was notified about the shoot, which took place last summer on a glacier near Whistler, where the Olympic Alpine skiing events will take place.

"We're good at keeping secrets," he said.

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