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Picabo Street believes Lindsey Vonn will ski one more season

Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn, of the USA, reacts in the finish area following her training run at the women’s World Cup downhill ski event in Lake Louise,Alberta, Wednesday, Dec.4, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jeff McIntosh)

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Since pulling out consideration for Sochi, Lindsey Vonn has not said anything about potentially going for the 2018 Olympics.

If she did go to Pyeongchang, South Korea, in four years, she would do so in a bid to become the oldest Olympic women’s Alpine skiing medalist of all time (assuming the record isn’t broken in Sochi).

But one of her idols doesn’t think Vonn will come anywhere close to that.

“I think she’s done [after next season],” said Olympic champion Picabo Street, according to the Denver Post. “I think she comes back for a rip-roaring 2014-15 season, she wins those three and then some, she double medals at the World Championships and she hangs it up, becomes a trophy wife. Where’s the motivation coming from for her to do more than that?”

Vonn did say after pulling out of the Olympics that her sights are set on the 2015 World Championships near her home in Vail, Colo. She’s also three World Cup wins behind Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell for the most all-time by a woman.

Here’s what Vonn has said about her skiing future, before she ended her season last week.

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