Lindsey Vonn is heading house after having 4 surgical procedures in Italy following her ski accident through the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The 41-year-old Olympic athlete suffered a fancy tibia fracture in a horrific crash throughout her Ladies’s Downhill occasion final Sunday (February 8).
Whereas within the Italian hospital, Lindsey has been sharing updates on her a number of surgical procedures, and now after the fourth, she will be able to lastly head again house to the US to proceed care.
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“Surgical procedure went effectively right now! Fortunately I will lastly return to the US 🇺🇸! As soon as I’m again I will provide you with extra updates and information about my damage…. However till then, as I sit right here in my mattress reflecting, I’ve a number of ideas I’d wish to share,” she shared on Saturday (February 14), practically per week after her accident.
“I’ve been studying a whole lot of messages and feedback saying that what has occurred to me makes them unhappy. Please, don’t be unhappy,” she added. “Empathy, love and help I welcome with an open coronary heart, however please not disappointment or sympathy. I hope as a substitute it offers you energy to maintain preventing, as a result of that’s what I’m doing and that’s what I’ll proceed to do. All the time.”
Lindsey additionally took a second to recall her crash.
“Once I assume again on my crash, I didn’t stand within the beginning gate unaware of the potential penalties. I knew what I used to be doing. I selected to take a threat. Each skier in that beginning gate took the identical threat. As a result of even in case you are the strongest particular person on this planet, the mountain at all times holds the playing cards,” she wrote.
“I used to be prepared to threat and push and sacrifice for one thing I knew I used to be completely able to doing. I’ll at all times take the chance of crashing whereas giving it my all, quite than not ski to my potential and have remorse. I by no means need to cross end line and say,“what if?” And to be completely trustworthy, I used to be stronger bodily in that second than I’ve been usually previously. Actually stronger than I used to be once I ended profession in 2019 the place I obtained a bronze medal within the World Championships. And mentally…. Mentally I used to be good. Clear, centered, hungry, aggressive but utterly calm… simply as I had practiced over the previous few months once I was on the rostrum in each downhill this season. 2 wins and main the standings… that was all a take a look at to arrange me for the Olympics. Mentally, I used to be extra prepared than I’ve ever been.”
Lindsey concluded, “However simply because I used to be prepared, that didn’t assure me something. Nothing in life is assured. That’s the gamble of chasing your goals, you would possibly fall however when you don’t strive you’ll by no means know.”
“So please, don’t really feel unhappy. The journey was definitely worth the fall. Once I shut my eyes at evening I don’t have regrets and the love I’ve for snowboarding stays. I’m nonetheless trying ahead to the second once I can stand on the highest of the mountain as soon as extra. And I’ll. 💪🏻❤️,” she added.
Whereas she didn’t place within the Olympics this 12 months, she does maintain three medals from previous Olympics, together with a gold within the downhill.
After her crash, Lindsey‘s dad informed press that “there can be no extra ski races” for her.