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Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from having her left leg amputated following Winter Olympic crash

Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from having her left leg amputated following Winter Olympic crash

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Vonn shared in an Instagram post on Monday that her injuries went far beyond the complex tibia fracture in the leg she initially revealed after clipping a gate and sailing off course just 13 seconds into her run on February 8. The 41-year-old Vonn said the trauma from the crash led to compartment syndrome in the leg. Compartment syndrome involves excessive pressure building up inside a muscle, either from bleeding or swelling. High pressure restricts blood flow and can lead to permanent injury if not treated quickly. “When you have so much trauma to one area of your body so that there’s too much blood and it gets stuck and it basically crushes everything,” Vonn said. Vonn credited Dr. Tom Hackett, an orthopedic surgeon who works for Vonn and Team USA, for conducting a fasciotomy to salvage her leg. ALSO READ | American skier Lindsey Vonn suffers broken leg, airlifted after horrific Winter Olympic downhill crash “He filleted it open (and) let it breathe, and he saved me,” she said. Story continues below this ad …

Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from having her left leg amputated following Winter Olympic crash

‘I’m bionic for real now’: Lindsey Vonn shares gnarly X-ray of ‘shattered’ leg after 6-hour Olympic surgery | Sport-others News

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3 min readFeb 21, 2026 12:41 AM IST Right after having another surgery on her badly broken left leg, ski legend Lindsey Vonn posted images of her injury situation and a clip of her being wheeled in for her surgery. Since she suffered a gruesome crash while competing at the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina around two weeks ago, Vonn has remained hospitalised. Before she was flown off to the USA, she underwent at least four surgeries at a hospital in Italy. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO “Made it through surgery… it took a bit more than 6 hours to complete. As you can see, it required a lot of plates and screws to put back together but Dr Hackett did an incredible job. Thank you Dr Viola for the surgery assist as well!!” Vonn posted on her Instagram handle. “With the extent of the trauma, I’ve been struggling a bit post op and have not yet been able to be discharged from the hospital just yet… almost there. Baby steps. Will explain the injury …

Lindsey Vonn says she had a ‘successful’ 3rd surgery on broken leg following crash at the Olympics

Lindsey Vonn says she had a ‘successful’ 3rd surgery on broken leg following crash at the Olympics

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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn had a “successful” third surgery on her broken left leg following her downhill crash at the Olympics, the American skier said Wednesday Lindsey Vonn says she had a ‘successful’ 3rd surgery on broken leg following crash at the Olympics Vonn posted an update on Instagram that included photos of her giving a thumbs up sign in her hospital bed with a metal frame attached to her leg. “I had my 3rd surgery today and it was successful. Success today has a completely different meaning than it did a few days ago,” Vonn said. “I’m making progress and while it is slow, I know I’ll be ok.” The 41-year-old Vonn crashed 13 seconds into her run during Sunday’s race at the Milan Cortina Games and was airlifted off the course by helicopter. She said late Monday she had suffered a “complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.” Nine days before Sunday’s crash, Vonn ruptured the ACL in her left knee in another …

‘I have no regrets’: Lindsey Vonn defiant after Olympic crash leaves her with complex leg fracture | Cricket News

‘I have no regrets’: Lindsey Vonn defiant after Olympic crash leaves her with complex leg fracture | Cricket News

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3 min readFeb 10, 2026 02:45 PM IST American ski great Lindsey Vonn said she has “no regrets” after suffering a complex tibia fracture in a dramatic crash during the women’s downhill at the Winter Olympics in Cortina, an injury that will require multiple surgeries. The 41-year-old, competing at her fifth and final Olympic Games, crashed just 13 seconds into Sunday’s race after striking a gate while already racing with ruptured ligaments in her left knee. Thrown violently off balance, Vonn was left screaming in pain on the course and required prolonged medical attention before being airlifted to a hospital in Treviso. Vonn, the 2010 Olympic downhill champion, later underwent surgery on her fractured left leg. “Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would,” Vonn wrote in a post on Instagram on Monday. “It wasn’t a storybook ending or a fairytale; it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it.” “While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the …

American skier Lindsey Vonn suffers broken leg, airlifted after horrific Winter Olympic downhill crash

American skier Lindsey Vonn suffers broken leg, airlifted after horrific Winter Olympic downhill crash

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U.S. ski great Lindsey Vonn had surgery on a broken leg in an Italian hospital after her audacious bid to win Olympic downhill gold with a ruptured knee ligament ended in a horrific crash after 13 seconds on Sunday. Vonn was being treated in the Ca’ Foncello Hospital in the northern city of Treviso after being flown there by helicopter after the high-speed crash in Cortina d’Ampezzo. “In the afternoon, she underwent orthopedic surgery to stabilise the fracture sustained in her left leg,” the hospital said in a statement. A source told Reuters that she was being monitored in the intensive care unit where she could have more privacy, and stressed there was no threat to her life. Vonn, 41, was flown to Treviso after ‍she was ⁠strapped into a medical stretcher and winched off the sunlit Olimpia delle Tofane piste in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Vonn, whose battle to reach the start line despite the serious injury to her left knee dominated the opening days of the Milano Cortina Olympics, saw her unlikely quest halted in …

Lindsey Vonn going for Olympic downhill gold at 41 with torn ACL in her ‘most dramatic’ comeback

Lindsey Vonn going for Olympic downhill gold at 41 with torn ACL in her ‘most dramatic’ comeback

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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Seeing if Lindsey Vonn can contend for a medal in the Olympic downhill at age 41 with a titanium replacement in her right knee to cap her comeback after nearly six years of retirement was already going to be one of the highlights of the Milan Cortina Olympics. HT Image Add in that she will now be competing in Sunday’s race with a completely ruptured ACL, bone bruising and meniscal damage in her left knee? “This would be the best comeback I’ve done so far,” Vonn said. “Definitely the most dramatic.” So dramatic that it has motivated plenty of people to question whether it’s something out of science fiction or attention hunting. Which is just the type of motivation that Vonn thrives on. Take Vonn’s response on social media to an opinion columnist. “My life does not revolve around ski racing. I am a woman that loves to ski. I don’t have an identity issue, I know exactly who I am. I was retired for 6 years and I have an …

Winter Olympics: Lindsey Vonn says she will race with ruptured ACL in left knee | Sport-others News

Winter Olympics: Lindsey Vonn says she will race with ruptured ACL in left knee | Sport-others News

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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 …

Shiffrin, Vonn and other ski racers star in ESPN’s ‘On the Edge’ docuseries leading into Olympics

Shiffrin, Vonn and other ski racers star in ESPN’s ‘On the Edge’ docuseries leading into Olympics

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Before Mikaela Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn and other World Cup ski racers chase gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics, they will star in a new docuseries that gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it’s like on the circuit. Shiffrin, Vonn and other ski racers star in ESPN’s ‘On the Edge’ docuseries leading into Olympics Some of the biggest names in the sport are featured in ESPN’s five-episode series called “On the Edge: World Cup Ski Racing,” which starts Friday with three segments. Besides Shiffrin and Vonn, the docuseries features Swiss standout Marco Odermatt and Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the Norwegian-born racer who represents Brazil and definitely likes to entertain. The last episode in the series, titled “The World’s Stage,” will air on April 10 and focus on Swiss racer Camille Rast as she reflects on the fatal fire in a bar in the ski resort Crans-Montana during a New Year’s celebration. That particular episode will also look back at the Olympics and how the 41-year-old Vonn, who returned to the circuit after a partial knee replacement, and …

Olympics-Shiffrin pressure eased at Milano Cortina as Vonn return shares spotlight

Olympics-Shiffrin pressure eased at Milano Cortina as Vonn return shares spotlight

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* Shiffrin shares spotlight with Vonn’s return to competition * Shiffrin’s openness reshapes perception of greatness * American faces competition from Switzerland’s Rast By Julien Pretot PARIS, – At every Olympic Games, some athletes arrive carrying more than just competitive ambition – they bring the emotional weight of expectation from an entire sport, and for Alpine skiing that figure has long been Mikaela Shiffrin. At the Milano Cortina Games, however, she will not carry that burden alone. The 30-year-old American is the most successful skier in history with a record 106 World Cup victories. Her medal count, World Cup wins and discipline-spanning dominance place her in a league of her own. Yet statistics alone fail to explain why she shapes the Olympic conversation. What sets Shiffrin apart is her mix of technical mastery and emotional candour. In a sport that has long celebrated stoicism, she has spoken openly about pressure, anxiety and loss, particularly following the death of her father in 2020. That openness has changed perceptions of what greatness looks like under Olympic scrutiny, …