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“People love boxes and Lindsey doesn’t belong in one,” says the recently retired Hayley Wickenheiser, the first woman to score a goal in a men’s professional hockey game back in 2003 in Finland. “She is good enough to compete, I don’t see what the issue is. A skier is a skier.”

Vonn first raised the idea of competing against the men at Lake Louise back in 2012. At the time, the FIS council firmly rejected her request, saying “one gender is not entitled to participate in races of the other” and that “exceptions will not be made to the FIS Rule.”

In doing so, the organization tossed its greatest asset right back in one of those boxes Wickenheiser talks about.

This time, Vonn plans to submit a proposal with the support of the U.S. ski team to race against the men at the Canadian Rocky Mountain resort in November 2018.

While her focus at present is rebounding from a severe fracture of her arm and challenging for medals at the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, her proposal is expected to go before the FIS this spring.

“I train with the men all the time and I really enjoy it,” Vonn told The Denver Post. “They push me to be a better skier. I always find myself skiing my best when I’m skiing against them. I talk to them, I pick their brain, I see what they’re doing and I, in turn, ski faster. So I would like the opportunity to see where I stand.”

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There’s no better place for Vonn to do so than at Lake Louise, which is nicknamed Lake Lindsey for her dominance. Vonn has 18 career victories at the Alberta resort, and the men’s course is essentially the same as the women’s with only a week separating the two events.