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Lindsey Vonn was aiming for Olympic golden past period successful Italy, but a clang led to 5 surgeries that saved her limb from being amputated.
In 1 of her first runs astatine nan Milan Cortina Olympics, caller disconnected a ruptured ACL she suffered a week earlier nan Games, Vonn fell, resulting successful a compound fracture of her leg.
Vonn besides needed a humor transfusion owed to nan magnitude of humor mislaid during nan surgeries, including 1 that required "a batch of plates and screws" and took astir six hours.
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Lindsey Vonn speeds down nan people during alpine skiing women’s downhill charismatic training astatine nan 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, connected Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati))
But successful an question and reply pinch Vanity Fair, Vonn near nan doorway unfastened to getting backmost onto nan mountain.
"I don’t for illustration to adjacent nan doorway connected anything, because you conscionable ne'er cognize what’s going to happen," Vonn said. "It’s difficult to show pinch this injury. It’s truthful f---ed up."
Vonn initially retired successful 2019 but announced astir six years later that she was making a comeback. She made her measurement onto nan Olympic team and recovered herself backmost successful regular form.
Lindsey Vonn of Team United States crashes during nan Women's Downhill connected time 2 of nan Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics astatine Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre connected Feb. 8, 2026, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (IOC via Getty Images)
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That's why she's not fresh to officially telephone it quits.
"I really consciousness for illustration that was a horrible past tally to extremity my profession on. I only made it 13 seconds. But they were a really bully 13 seconds," she added.
Vonn's skis grounded to popular disconnected during her crash, apt making nan wounded worse than it needed to be. Vanity Fair noted that Vonn "spends astir each of her clip successful rehab," including 2 hours of beingness therapy and different 2 hours successful a hyperbaric chamber, each earlier she moreover gets an charismatic workout in.
United States' Lindsey Vonn is airlifted distant aft a clang during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine nan 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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If Vonn decides to telephone it, she will still spell down arsenic 1 of nan astir dressed up skiers of each time, winning an Olympic golden successful 2010 and 2 World Championships while besides owning 84 World Cup victories.
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