Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn declines to say if she'd accept White House invitation after 2017 refusal

Bryan Llenas reports

U.S. Olympic gold medalist alpine skier Lindsey Vonn said in a 2017 interview that if she were invited to President Donald Trump's White House, she would decline the invitation. But in 2025, she wasn't as quick to declare her refusal. 

Fox News Digital asked Vonn if she would accept a White House invitation after the upcoming Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics at the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Media Summit on Tuesday. 

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Lindsey Vonn, right, reacts after receiving her bronze medal in the women's downhill in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018.  (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

"First of all, I just want to say that every Olympic athlete from Team USA is normally invited… it has nothing to do with if you win a medal or not," Vonn said. 

"I'm not going to answer that question because, I'm just not going to answer it. I want to keep my passport," she added. 

Vonn declared her initial refusal to visit the White House in December 2017, just ahead of the 2018 Pyeonchang Winter Olympics. 

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This file photo shows Lindsey Vonn at a news conference regarding her future at the Sochi Olympics, the World Cup season and 2015 World Championships at Gold Peak, Vail, Colo.  (AP/File)

"Absolutely not," Vonn said when asked if she would go, during the 2017 CNN interview. "No. But I have to win to be invited. No, actually, I think every U.S. team member is invited, so no, I won’t go." 

Vonn went on to suggest that she did not want to represent the president. 

"Well, I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the president," Vonn said at the time. "I take the