3 min readFeb 4, 2026 08:02 PM IST American skiing legend Lindsey Vonn has announced that she will compete at the upcoming Winter Olympics at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics despite a torn ACL from a crash four days ago. The crash left Vonn with a left knee that had a “completely ruptured” ACL besides bone bruising “plus meniscal damage.” Vonn’s crash happened during a World Cup downhill race in Switzerland’s Crans-Montana on Friday/. After she extricated herself from the safety nets and skiing to the bottom of the course, Vonn, who will be one of the biggest names at the Winter Olympics, was taken to a hospital. Despite the agony of an injury that used to be a career-ended for high-performance athletes back in the day, Vonn said she was “confident” of competing. She returned to skiing on Tuesday, with barely three days of physical therapy to prop up her injured leg. Vonn’s first race comes on Sunday in the women’s downhill. She also plans on competing in super-G and the new team combined …