Lindsey Vonn Shares Emotional Tribute After The Passing of Her Childhood Ski Coach

Lindsey Vonn Shares Emotional Tribute After The Passing of Her Childhood Ski Coach

It is a sad day for the world of ski racing as legendary Austrian-born ski coach Erich Sailer has passed away at age 99. Sailer immigrated to America in the 1950s and coached Buck Hill Ski Team in Burnsville, Minnesota for decades and transformed it into one of the nation’s premier training grounds for slalom skiing. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame inductee pioneered summer ski training camps at Mount Hood and set a new standard for deve…