Lindsey Vonn awaits answers on next surgical steps after Olympic crash

Lindsey Vonn is inactive successful the infirmary and inactive awaiting imaging earlier knowing the adjacent steps successful her aesculapian betterment aft competing connected a ruptured ACL astatine the Olympics past week. 

"I’m yet feeling much similar myself but I person a long, agelong mode to go," Vonn said successful an Instagram video.

"Tomorrow, I’ll person different surgery, and, hopefully, that goes well. And past I tin perchance permission and spell backmost home, astatine which point, I’ll request different surgery. Still don’t cognize precisely what that entails yet until I get immoderate amended imaging."

Vonn was visibly affectional arsenic she laic successful the infirmary furniture aft a "hard fewer days." 

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The United States' Lindsey Vonn arrives astatine the decorativeness country of alpine skis women's downhill grooming astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

"That’s kinda wherever I americium close now. I’m conscionable successful the hospital, precise overmuch immobile," Vonn said.

Her adjacent country volition beryllium her 4th aft her caller wounded during an attempted Olympic comeback. 

Vonn was, arguably, the biggest American communicative entering the Milan Cortina Olympics this year, returning to the Games for the archetypal clip successful 8 years aft a impermanent retirement. She tore an ACL conscionable a week earlier successful a World Cup contention but pressed connected with her effort to vie anyway. 

Then she crashed 13 seconds into her archetypal contention successful Milan Cortina aft hitting a gross and was airlifted from the Olympic people and taken to Ca’ Foncello Hospital successful Treviso.

LINDSEY VONN'S DAD REACTS TO SKI STAR'S TERRIFYING OLYMPIC CRASH

The United States' Lindsey Vonn is airlifted aft a clang during an alpine skis women's downhill contention astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Vonn said she had "no regrets" successful her archetypal Instagram station aft the clang earlier this week. 

"While yesterday did not extremity the mode I had hoped, and contempt the aggravated carnal symptom it caused, I person nary regrets. Standing successful the starting gross yesterday was an unthinkable feeling that I volition ne'er forget," her caption said. 

"Knowing I stood determination having a accidental to triumph was a triumph successful and of itself. I besides knew that racing was a risk. It ever was and ever volition beryllium an incredibly unsafe sport.

"And, akin to skis racing, we instrumentality risks successful life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t execute the dreams we cognize we could have. But that is besides the quality of life; we tin try.

"I tried. I dreamt. I jumped."

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Lindsey Vonn speeds down the people during alpine skiing women’s downhill grooming astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

She says the torn ACL had thing to bash with the crash. 

"I was simply 5 inches excessively choky connected my enactment erstwhile my close limb hooked wrong of the gate, twisting maine and resulted successful my crash. My ACL and past injuries had thing to bash with my clang whatsoever," she said. 

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