Lindsey Vonn was seen free skiing on Head skis at Coronet Peak, New Zealand, today, lending credence to an article posted by Swiss site skionline.ch. conjecturing that Vonn is making a switch from her career-long ski company Rossignol to Head.

Vonn left for New Zealand Tuesday and will be joined by the rest of the U.S. women’s team this weekend for two and a half weeks of pre-season, on-snow training.

The following is a rough translation of the skionline article:

It is quite possible that Lindsey Vonn is changing to the Austrian company Head to hunt her gold Olympic medal. The 24-year-old American has won 22 World Cup races, won her second overall World Cup series last season, her second downhill World Cup title and landed world championship gold in downhill and super G. She achieved all of these triumphs on Rossignol skis. 

Lindsey Vonn was seen free skiing on Head skis at Coronet Peak, New Zealand, today, lending credence to an article posted by Swiss site skionline.ch. conjecturing that Vonn is making a switch from her career-long ski company Rossignol to Head.

Vonn left for New Zealand Tuesday and will be joined by the rest of the U.S. women’s team this weekend for two and a half weeks of pre-season, on-snow training.

The following is a rough translation of the skionline.ch article:

It is quite possible that Lindsey Vonn is changing to the Austrian company Head to hunt her gold Olympic medal. The 24-year-old American has won 22 World Cup races, won her second overall World Cup series last season, her second downhill World Cup title and landed world championship gold in downhill and super G. She achieved all of these triumphs on Rossignol skis. 

But Vonn is now, like all the other 200 drivers of the Rossignol Group (Rossignol, Dynastar, Lange), affected by the wage-Guillotine that cuts half of their fixed salary.   Former Rossignol skiers Manfred Moelgg and Max Blardone have acted upon the cut and switched to Salomon.

Now it’s Lindsey Vonn’s turn. Better said: The boss is off. This is not in this case, racing manager Rainer Salzgeber, but Head-owner Johan Eliasch. The Swede has made possible the commitments of Bode Miller and Hermann Maier.

 ”Head Case”, says Salzgeber, to speculation that the best female skier in the world could go head on using Head skis with her best friend Maria Riesch, who is already part of the Head racing squad.

 ”I know only so much is signed yet,” Salzgeber said of Vonn’s possible switch to Head.