Lindsey Vonn's sister recalls watching Olympic ski star's hard crash: 'Last thing we wanted to see'

Lindsey Vonn’s sister was affectional arsenic she described watching the Olympic prima endure a hard clang during her tally astatine the Milan Cortina Games connected Sunday.

Vonn was successful the archetypal assemblage erstwhile she mislaid her equilibrium and fell hard. She writhed successful symptom arsenic aesculapian professionals came implicit to cheque connected her. A aesculapian chopper flew to transportation Vonn disconnected the mountain. It’s unclear what led to the crash.

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Lindsey Vonn of the United States during women's alpine skiing downhill grooming astatine the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre connected Feb. 7, 2026. (Michael Madrid/Imagn Images)

"That was decidedly the past happening we wanted to see," her sister, Karin Kildow, told NBC Sports. "It happened quick. So, erstwhile that happens, you’re conscionable instantly hoping she’s OK. It was scary due to the fact that erstwhile you commencement to spot the stretchers being enactment out, it’s not a bully sign. But we were conscionable saying, like, ‘The Man successful the Arena.’ Like, she conscionable dared greatly and she enactment it each retired there, so, it’s truly hard to spot but we conscionable truly anticipation she’s OK."

Kildow added that Vonn, who was dealing with a ruptured ACL days earlier the Olympics, was going to springiness it her all, knowing that the effect could person been disastrous.

"She ever goes 110% and there’s ne'er thing less. I cognize she enactment her full bosom into it and sometimes things happen," she said. "It’s a precise unsafe athletics and there’s a batch of variables astatine play. I don’t truly cognize precisely what happened. It did look similar a beauteous unsmooth fall. We’re conscionable hoping for the best."

A chopper aerial lifts Lindsey Vonn of the United States aft a clang successful the women's downhill alpine skiing contention during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre connected Feb. 8, 2026.  (Eric Bolte/Imagn Images)

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Kildow, similar the remainder of the crowd, was successful daze arsenic Vonn crashed.

The Olympic fable was attempting to medal successful the lawsuit contempt a devastating genu wounded she suffered portion astatine the World Cup. She made wide successful consequent societal media posts that her ACL was "100% gone."

An ACL teardrop usually involves a betterment that lasts astir a year, but Vonn planned to combat done it.

She had a palmy grooming tally and it appeared the momentum was down her to astatine slightest decorativeness the run.

The Team USA fable is the second-most palmy pistillate successful World Cup past with 84 wins. She has won 8 World Championship medals.

United States' Lindsey Vonn crashes during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Vonn won a golden medal successful the downhill and a bronze medal successful the super-G astatine the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and a bronze medal successful the downhill astatine the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Games.

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