'Put me in the dang race': Lindsey Vonn willing to forgo women's World Cup to face men in Lake Louise

Lindsey Vonn would sacrifice the women’s World Cup in Lake Louise, Alta., next year to compete against men.

Turned down by the world governing body of her sport five years ago, the American ski star has renewed her request to race the men on a mountain where she’s been victorious 18 times.

FIS will decide in the spring whether the most decorated woman in alpine skiing can go head-to-head against men in Lake Louise in 2018.

Since the men’s and women’s courses are so similar, competing in the men’s races a week before the women’s World Cup could be seen