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They say that God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers. If that's the case, then Winter Olympian Lindsey Vonn is a Sergeant Major. If you take a look at the tragic real-life stories of Olympic gymnasts or the tragic details of Tiger Woods (an old flame of Vonn's), it'll become clear that sportspeople often go through their fair share of trials and tribulations on their way to gold, silver, or bronze. In fact, one study, published by Progress in Brain Research (via the University of Toronto ), compared the lives of nonmedaling Olympians against those who took a place on the podium. They found that all the athletes who came home with a medal around their necks were exposed to some kind of trauma in childhood

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