A match made on the slopes?
Skiers Lindsey Vonn and Matthieu Bailet sparked dating rumors when they were spotted out and about Thursday in New York City’s Soho neighborhood.
The athletes enjoyed a cozy lunch before heading underground to catch a subway together, sitting close to each other while waiting for the train.
Bailet, a 30-year-old French alpine ski racer who competed in the Olympics at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, wore a casual navy suit for the outing.
Vonn, 41, opted for a white blouse, black leather jacket and a pair of light wash jeans as well as forearm crutches as she continues to recover from her devastating crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy back in January.
The rumored couple follow each other on Instagram and have “liked” numerous posts on each other’s feed.
Vonn’s outing with Bailet comes days after she turned heads Monday at the Met Gala, ditching her crutches for her first red carpet outing since she was airlifted to a hospital while competing.
This was the American athlete’s third time attending fashion’s biggest night — doing so first in 2010, the year she won her gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and second in 2013 alongside her then-boyfriend Tiger Woods.
In March, Vonn graced the cover of Vanity Fair magazine, baring her surgery bandages in a high-slit black dress.
The athlete shattered her tibia, fibula and ankle in her crash. She underwent five surgeries and nearly lost her left leg to compartment syndrome, a condition where a dangerous amount of pressure builds in the leg and cuts off blood flow.
“I was number one in the world, and potentially on my way to an Olympic medal,” she told the outlet of why she came out of a nearly six-year retirement to compete again this year. “Now I’m in a wheelchair.”
Elsewhere In the interview, she detailed the excruciating pain she felt after the crash, saying, “I screamed at the top of my lungs: ‘Get me out.’ It just wouldn’t dissipate. It wouldn’t let up. It’s seared into my brain.”
“I don’t want people to hang on this crash and be remembered for that,” Vonn told the magazine. “What I did before the Olympics has never been done before.”
