Lindsey Vonn reveals she had third surgery on broken leg

Olympic fable Lindsey Vonn revealed connected Wednesday she underwent a 3rd country connected her breached limb pursuing a clang astatine the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

Vonn called the cognition "successful" successful a station connected her Instagram. She shared the update on with photos of herself successful a infirmary furniture and a metallic framework attached to her leg.

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Lindsey Vonn of the United States successful the decorativeness country during women's downhill grooming during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre connected Feb. 6, 2026. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters via Imagn Images)

"I had my 3rd country contiguous and it was successful. Success contiguous has a wholly antithetic meaning than it did a fewer days ago," Vonn wrote successful the post. "I’m making advancement and portion it is slow, I cognize I’ll beryllium OK.

"Thankful for each of the unthinkable aesculapian staff, friends, family, who person been by my broadside and the beauteous outpouring of emotion and enactment from radical astir the world. Also, immense congrats to my teammates and each of the Team USA athletes who are retired determination inspiring maine and giving maine thing to cheer for."

Superstar athletes, including Naomi Osaka and Shaun White, wished Vonn good arsenic she begins her betterment and rehab process.

Vonn, 41, was already skiing with a torn ACL, but she needed to beryllium airlifted disconnected the upland successful a scary country during the alpine skiing women’s downhill lawsuit connected Sunday.

Lindsey Vonn of Team United States during the people inspection earlier the Downhill Training of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre connected Feb. 6, 2026 successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Daniel Kopatsch/VOIGT/GettyImages)

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Officials astatine an Italian infirmary wherever Vonn was brought to rapidly aft the clang said she underwent country to "stabilize a fracture reported successful her near leg." Vonn had said she suffered a "complex tibia fracture that is presently unchangeable but volition necessitate aggregate surgeries to hole properly."

Before the Games began, galore wondered however Vonn would skis connected her ruptured ACL, but she was determined to effort to medal successful her signature event. Her runs connected Friday and Saturday went fine, but she mislaid power a fewer seconds into her Sunday run, and things got precise superior afterward.

Vonn said earlier this week she had nary regrets astir her determination to race.

"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," she wrote successful a abstracted Instagram post. "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.

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

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"I tried. I dreamt. I jumped."

Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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