Tiger Woods, the 14-time major golf champion whose infamous sex scandal with multiple mistresses led to a 2010 divorce, is dating ski star Lindsey Vonn, the two US sports icons announced on Monday. "I guess it wasn't a well-kept secret but yes, I am dating Tiger Woods," Vonn said in a Twitter posting and a longer statement on her Facebook page that included pictures of the couple.

American star Lindsey Vonn has blamed world skiing chiefs for the horror fall which ended her season, claiming that the fateful world championship super-G race was too dangerous to have been given the go-ahead. Vonn tore two knee ligaments during a crash at the championships in Schladming in Austria earlier this month and will take no more part in the remainder of the World Cup season. "It was too dangerous because of the fog. The snow was too soft and the track was broken. That is 100 percent why I fell," the four-time World Cup champion said in a videoconference call.

Lindsey Vonn vowed Wednesday to battle back from a season-ending injury sustained in the women's super-G here in a bid to represent the United States at next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi. The ultra-competitive spearhead of the US ski team was left needing surgery on ruptured knee ligaments and a lateral tibial plateau fracture following a horror crash in Tuesday's opening event of the World Ski Championships. Vonn, 28, received 12 minutes of on-slope medical attention before helicopter evacuation to a nearby hospital, but she insisted on remaining positive.

The exit of Lindsey Vonn, the ultra-competitive spearhead of the US ski team, following a horror crash has left teammates pleading for privacy in their bid to focus on picking up the pieces. The opening women's super-G race of the World Ski Championships on Tuesday was witness to a series of fog-related delays before going ahead in changeable light and variable snow conditions late in the afternoon. Only 36 of 59 racers made it down the Planai course, and of those, six did not finish.