Lindsey Vonn is breaking her silence after Sunday’s terrifying crash on the Olympics … detailing the severity of the damage, a tibia fracture, that she says would require “a number of surgical procedures to repair correctly.”
Vonn took to Instagram Monday afternoon after present process emergency surgical procedure for the damage, saying “my Olympic dream didn’t end the way in which I dreamt it will.”
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“I dared to dream and had labored so laborious to attain it. As a result of in Downhill ski racing the distinction between a strategic line and a catastrophic damage could be as small as 5 inches.”
The 41-year-old stated she was “5 inches too tight on my line” when her arm hooked the within of the gate, sending her tumbling. She was adamant, although neither her torn ACL from almost two weeks in the past nor some other nagging damage performed a task within the accident.
As for the “complicated fracture,” Yale describes the damage as a “traumatic damage involving a number of breaks in a bone and broken tender tissue.”
Regardless of the ache it prompted her, Vonn says she has no regrets about competing within the 2026 Winter Olympics.
“Standing within the beginning gate yesterday was an unimaginable feeling that I’ll always remember. Realizing I stood there having an opportunity to win was a victory in and of itself. I additionally knew that racing was a threat. It at all times was and at all times shall be an extremely harmful sport.”
Hundreds of individuals hit the remark part to indicate Vonn some love … together with Simone Biles, Cameron Brink, Ilona Maher and even Reese Witherspoon.
Wishing you a speedy restoration, Lindsey!