Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn has officially entered a first-look deal with CBS Studios. News of the deal comes three years after Vonn’s retirement from ski racing after winning Gold and Bronze medals for the US Olympic Team in Alpine Skiing; Vonn has entered the deal with CBS as the head of Après Productions, after premiering a documentary on HBO.
Lindsey Vonn’s professional ski career began when she made her World Cup debut in 2000 at the World Cup in Park City, Utah. Von would later make her Olympic debut at age 17 by competing in alpine skiing and combined skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2003, she earned a silver medal at the Junior World Championships, another silver at the 2004 U.S. Alpine Championships, and her first gold medal later that year. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, Vonn would clock impressive times in her training runs, but a training accident would lead to her being airlifted to a hospital – only for Vonn to return two days later, compete while injured, and finish eighth.
In 2008, Vonn would win the overall World Cup title, repeating the same feat the very next year in 2009; at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Lindsey Vonn would once again compete while injured due to a training accident, only this time she would win Olympic gold in downhill skiing, becoming the first American woman to do so. At her next Olympics in 2014 at Sochi, Vonn was unable to compete because of a major leg injury she had received during training; at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, Vonn would win the bronze medal in women’s downhill skiing, tie for sixth place in the women’s Super-G alpine event, and announce that she would be retiring from the sport at the end of the season.
Lindsey Vonn and Apres Studios Sign a New Deal with CBS
In 2019, Lindsey Vonn would collaborate with HBO to release Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, a documentary cataloging her rise through her World Cup wins and through to her Olympic victories while also cataloging the defeats and setbacks that riddled her “transcendent career,” per HBO. In 2020, Lindsey Vonn and her childhood friend and fellow skier Claire Abbe Brown founded Après Productions, a company that Variety describes as “[creating] content that will tell untold athlete’s stories.”
Under her new first-look deal with CBS Studios, Vonn and Après Productions will “develop content across all television and digital media,” per Deadline, for two years. What effect this deal may have on future works from Vonn is currently unknown, and any information on future projects from CBS or Après Productions is being kept under lock and key. Past works from Après include PICABO, a 2022 TV miniseries focusing on the life and career of Vonn’s fellow skier Picabo Street.
More information on the agreement between Lindsey Vonn and CBS will likely be released as future projects enter development.
