In yesterday's downhill race, she came close to a podium finish when the World Cup restarted after the Olympics. In the Super-G competition in Soldeu, Andorra, no one could stop the Sundsvall-born 22-year-old.
SportsLindsey Vonn could have lost her left leg after a serious crash at the Olympics. The alpine star thanked her surgeon, Thomas Hackett, for saving her from that. "Dr. Tom Hackett saved my leg. He saved my leg from amputation," Vonn says in an emotional clip on Instagram.
SportsLindsey Vonn remains hospitalized after her crash in the women's downhill race and has undergone several surgeries.
SportsLindsey Vonn has spoken out publicly for the first time since the crash that broke her leg. "I have no regrets," the American star wrote on Instagram. Her broken tibia will require "multiple surgeries" to repair.
SportsSports physician Matilda Lundblad condemns Lindsey Vonn's decision to compete in the Olympic downhill event with a torn cruciate ligament. "It can accelerate the development of osteoarthritis," wrote Lundblad, noting that the alpine star "risks having a knee that is biologically equivalent to that of an 80-year-old."
SportsLindsey Vonn expects to be at the start of the Olympic downhill race on Sunday - despite a meniscus injury and a torn cruciate ligament in her left knee. The American alpine star said this at a press conference. "As long as there is a chance, I will try," she said.
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