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U.S. skiier Lindsey Vonn arrives for a press conference in Vancouver on February 10, 2010, two days before the start of the Winter Olympics.

Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:58 PM

Tory senator cheers on Lindsey Vonn

Jane Taber

Vancouver – Nancy Greene Raine is cheering for Lindsey Vonn.

“We all cheer for the great ones. It doesn’t matter where they come from,” Ms. Greene Raine, the Olympic icon and a Conservative senator, said this morning at an Olympic breakfast.

Ms. Vonn is an American skier, the dominant female competitor in the World Cup and the one to beat on the slopes. She could win as many as five medals.

But the attractive blonde athlete is making front-page headlines today after she revealed on NBC’s Today Show that she is injured. A badly bruised shin is causing her much pain.

Although her appearance on the slopes appeared slightly iffy, it seems now her doctors believe the muscular contusion to her lower leg won’t affect her Olympics. She will ski in all five of her races.

Ms. Greene Raine, who is Canada’s Olympic ambassador, knows all about injuries and the Games. A month before her Olympic races in Grenoble, France in 1968, she suffered a bad sprain. However, she was able to tape up her leg, ski and then win – gold and silver medals.

And she recounted today how it all flashed back to her when she read about Ms. Vonn’s injuries.

“If you have to race and have pain it does affect your performance,” she said. “… Hopefully they’ll be able to figure out how she’ll ski without pain.

“She’s such an amazing skier she could probably ski on one leg and still do really well.”

Although she says she’s cheering for the Canadian teams, the Senator said it’s important for people to know how good Ms. Vonn is, “so that when our girls beat her then they can get credit.”

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Skier Lindsey Vonn limps as she arrives to train for the Vancouver Olympics today in Whistler.

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