Tiger Woods, Lindsay Vonn Make It Official: 'We Are Now Dating'

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods." height="425" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/03/18/vonn_tiger_custom-3486f4f38427ff9c569365116e89efc7a3ce8c37-s40.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.6pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 80.25pt; margin-top: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">We promise, we'll get back to real news in a little bit. But first: After weeks of rumors, the sports icons Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn have made it official: They are dating.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 1.6rem; margin: 0cm 80.25pt 0.0001pt 0cm; max-width: 690px; min-height: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">"I guess it wasn't a well-kept secret but yes, I am dating Tiger Woods," Vonn, the Olympic gold medalist ski racer,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/lindseyvonn/status/313696450833948674" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4774cc; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">tweeted</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 1.6rem; margin: 0cm 80.25pt 15.6pt 0cm; max-width: 690px; min-height: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Both Vonn and Woods, who is a 14-time major golf champion, also posted photographs of themselves on their Facebook pages.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 1.6rem; margin: 0cm 80.25pt 0.0001pt 0cm; max-width: 690px; min-height: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">"Our relationship evolved from a friendship into something more over these past few months and it has made me very happy,"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151508174969728&l=a427064e7f" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4774cc; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Vonn said on her Facebook page</span></a>. "I don't plan on addressing this further as I would like to keep that part of my life between us, my family and close friends."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 1.6rem; margin: 0cm 80.25pt 0.0001pt 0cm; max-width: 690px; min-height: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Woods<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152697837675121&set=a.10152697837415121.1073741826.164825930120&type=1&theater" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4774cc; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">put out a very similar statement</span></a>, saying, "We want to continue our relationship, privately, as an ordinary couple and continue to compete as athletes."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 1.6rem; margin: 0cm 80.25pt 0.0001pt 0cm; max-width: 690px; min-height: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.espn.co.uk/golf/sport/story/198272.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4774cc; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">As ESPN explains</span></a>, Woods has two children with his ex-wife Elin Nordegren, a former Swedish model.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 1.6rem; margin: 0cm 80.25pt 15.6pt 0cm; max-width: 690px; min-height: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">"The marriage dissolved after Woods' infidelities very publicly came to light in 2009," ESPN adds. "His career then suffered for a time, but he has shown signs of again becoming the top threat on the tour and won the WGC-Cadillac Championship this month. Woods is in the field for this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 1.6rem; margin: 0cm 80.25pt 15.6pt 0cm; max-width: 690px; min-height: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Vonn, whose divorce from fellow Olympic ski racer Thomas Vonn became official in January, is recovering from a knee injury she suffered during the World Championships in Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

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