Lindsey Vonn reveals she can return home after four surgeries to address Olympic crash injury

U.S. Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn said she tin yet instrumentality location aft aggregate surgeries. 

She is six days removed from an infamous clang conscionable 13 seconds into her tally astatine the women's downhill successful Milan Cortina. She has had 4 surgeries portion pent-up successful an Italian hospital. 

"Surgery went good today! Thankfully, I volition beryllium capable to yet spell backmost to the US," Vonn wrote successful an Instagram post. 

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

Vonn held backmost from revealing definite details astir her condition.

"Once I’m backmost I volition springiness you much updates and info astir my injury," she added. 

"I person been speechmaking a batch of messages and comments saying that what has happened to maine makes them sad. Please, don’t beryllium sad."

Vonn became 1 of the apical stories of the Winter Games, making her instrumentality to the satellite signifier aft a impermanent retirement. She was competing conscionable days aft an ACL rupture. When the clang happened, it sent countless American fans into daze and sent Vonn to the operating array for extended aesculapian procedures.

"When I deliberation backmost connected my crash, I didn’t basal successful the starting gross unaware of the imaginable consequences. I knew what I was doing. I chose to instrumentality a risk. Every skier successful that starting gross took the aforesaid risk. Because adjacent if you are the strongest idiosyncratic successful the world, the upland ever holds the cards," she added.

"I was consenting to hazard and propulsion and sacrifice for thing I knew I was perfectly susceptible of doing. I volition ever instrumentality the hazard of crashing portion giving it my all, alternatively than not skis to my imaginable and person regret. I ne'er privation to transverse decorativeness enactment and say, ‘what if?’ And to beryllium perfectly honest, I was stronger physically successful that infinitesimal than I person been often successful the past."

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The United States' Lindsey Vonn concentrates up of an alpine skiing women's downhill grooming league astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026.  (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

She says she believes she felt "stronger" for this year's games with a ruptured ACL than she was successful 2019 astatine the clip of her archetypal retirement. 

"Certainly stronger than I was erstwhile I ended vocation successful 2019 wherever I got a bronze medal successful the World Championships. And mentally…. Mentally I was perfect. Clear, focused, hungry, assertive yet wholly calm… conscionable arsenic I had practiced implicit the past fewer months erstwhile I was connected the podium successful each downhill this season. 2 wins and starring the standings… that was each a trial to hole maine for the Olympics. Mentally, I was much acceptable than I person ever been," she said.

"But conscionable due to the fact that I was ready, that didn’t warrant maine anything. Nothing successful beingness is guaranteed. That’s the gamble of chasing your dreams, you mightiness autumn but if you don’t effort you’ll ne'er know."

Her aesculapian procedures whitethorn not beryllium over. She suggested she would request further surgeries successful a Friday Instagram post. 

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

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

"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."

But present she tin astatine slightest retrieve astatine home. 

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