Olympian Lindsey Vonn will not say if she’d go to Trump’s White Home in 2025

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U.S. Olympic gold medalist alpine skier Lindsey Vonn stated in a 2017 interview that if she had been invited to President Donald Trump's White Home, she would decline the invitation. However in 2025, she wasn't as fast to declare her refusal.

Fox Information Digital requested Vonn if she would settle for a White House invitation after the upcoming Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics on the US 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)

"Initially, I simply wish to say that each Olympic athlete from Staff USA is often invited… it has nothing to do with if you happen to win a medal or not," Vonn stated.

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

Vonn declared her preliminary refusal to go to the White Home in December 2017, simply forward of the 2018 Pyeonchang Winter Olympics.

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This file picture exhibits Lindsey Vonn at a information convention relating to her future on the Sochi Olympics, the World Cup season and 2015 World Championships at Gold Peak, Vail, Colo. (AP/File)

"Completely not," Vonn stated when requested if she would go, throughout the 2017 CNN interview . "No. However I've to win to be invited. No, really, I believe each U.S. staff member is invited, so no, I received’t go."

Vonn went on to counsel that she didn't wish to signify the president.

"Properly, I hope to signify the individuals of america, not the president," Vonn stated on the time. "I take the Olympics very severely and what they imply and what they signify, what strolling underneath our flag means within the opening ceremony. I wish to signify our nation effectively. I don’t suppose that there are lots of people at present in our authorities that do this."

Vonn, 41, got here out of a five-year retirement final yr, and broke the document for oldest Alpine snowboarding World Cup podium finisher.

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Lindsey Vonn of USA wins the bronze medal throughout the Alpine Snowboarding Girls's Downhill at Jeongseon Alpine Centre on Feb. 21, 2018, in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Photos)

Now, she is trying to get again to the Olympics in February.

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

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Jackson Thompson is a sports activities author for Fox Information Digital. He beforehand labored for ESPN and Enterprise Insider. Jackson has lined the Tremendous Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.