American skier Lindsey Vonn revealed that she was at risk of losing her leg after her tibia fracture in the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Vonn crashed during the women’s downhill event. She was airlifted out of the course. She has undergone several surgeries, both in Italy and in the United States. 

In an Instagram post, Vonn revealed that her crash also led to compartment syndrome in her leg. This is when excessive pressure builds up in a muscle. 

Dr. Tom Hackett, who worked for Vonn and Team USA, performed a fasciotomy. This is an emergency surgery where connective tissue is cut to relieve high pressure. 

Vonn suffered a torn ACL before the Winter Olympics. Despite this, she did several practice runs on the Olympic slope, all of which were successful. 

It’s unclear how much her torn ACL impacted her eventual injury in the Olympics. The injury was caused by her right arm, not her leg, hooking on a gate. However, some medical experts have argued that having full movement in her left leg would’ve allowed her to regain control or at least minimize the damage of her fall. 

Hackett was brought in by the U.S. to observe Vonn’s ACL. If he hadn’t brought in, there’s a chance that Vonn would’ve needed an amputation. 

Regardless, both the torn ACL and injuries sustained at the Olympics likely mean an end to her skiing career. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She also won the bronze medal in Super-G skiing. In the 2018 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal for downhill skiing. 

The 2026 Winter Olympics ended on Feb. 22. The 2030 Winter Olympics are projected to start on Feb. 1 and go until Feb. 17. The 2030 Winter Olympics will be held in the French Alps.

Skier Lindsey Vonn was diagnosed with a broken leg after a fall during the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Vonn’s body struck a gate while she was attempting her first big jump of the Olympics. Her right ski clipped the gate during her jump, which caused her to lose control and crash. She was only 13 seconds into her race. 

The race was put on hold. Vonn was put on a stretcher and airlifted by helicopter to a local hospital. The race stopped for nearly 20 minutes due to Vonn’s injury. 

The U.S. Ski & Snowboarding social media accounts put out a statement saying Vonn was in good condition. Both Team USA physicians and local Italian physicians helped tend to her injury.

Vonn, 41, would’ve been the oldest woman to ever medal in skiing. She won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Games. 

Vonn had suffered a torn ACL just nine days before. This was in Switzerland during her last scheduled race before the Olympics. She had done two successful practice runs of the Olympic course leading up to the event. 

Breezy Johnson avenged her Team USA teammate by winning the gold medal. Johnson was the second woman to win a gold medal in skiing for the U.S., joining Vonn. 

Meanwhile, hometown hero Sofia Goggia won the bronze medal for Team Italy. This was the third straight time Goggia has won a skiing medal at the Olympics. 

Women’s cross-country skiing and alpine skiing are scheduled for Feb. 10. The cross-country skiing event relies more on endurance rather than speed. Alpine skiing goes strictly downhill and requires stiffer boots. Alpine skiing is the kind of skiing you generally find at ski resorts in the United States and Canada. It’s an easy form of skiing to understand but can be hard to master.

Three-time Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn announced Tuesday morning that she suffered a completely torn ACL when she crashed during a race on Friday. Vonn’s Olympic hopes are not over despite the injury, as she still intends to compete during the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.

The injury happened during a World Cup race in Switzerland. “It was painful initially after the crash,” Vonn said during her press conference. Vonn also said that currently she feels no pain.

Vonn, 41, plans to test her knee in practice over the next couple of days and fully intends to compete in the downhill race this Sunday. If all goes well, she will take part in the Super-G event next Thursday. If Vonn can compete, she will become the oldest Alpine skier in Winter Olympic history.

“I built an amazing life and was really happy in retirement, but I didn’t finish my career the way I wanted to. I was limping away when I wanted to finish strong,” Vonn said. She wants to go out on her terms and will not let a torn ACL get in the way of finishing her story.

If Vonn can race on Sunday, it will go down as one of the most admirable and impressive feats in all of sports history.

Lindsey Vonn won bronze on Wednesday in Pyeongchang in her final downhill race, and both her and many other people’s emotions were running high in the event’s aftermath.

Lindsey Vonn 2018 Winter Olympics downhill final

The 33-year-old veteran Olympian was asked a question about how her late grandfather — who died last fall and whose initials Vonn added to her helmet — inspired her, and couldn’t avoid shedding tears during the interview with NBC’s Heather Cox.

“It’s been really hard for me not to get emotional for so many reasons, especially because of my grandfather,” said Vonn. “I wanted to win so much because of him. [Cries,] But I still think I made him proud. Our family never gives up and I never gave up. I kept working hard. I’m really proud of this medal and I know he is too.”

Vonn of course added that she wished she had won gold, although one person was more explicit in his disappointment: her father.

“It’s great skiing, but it reminds me of something that Buddy Werner used to say,” the athlete’s father Alan Kildow told USA Today Sports, referring to a skier from the 1950s. “He said there’s two places in the race, first and last, and I only want one of them.”

Kildow added he believed his daughter should have been more aggressive.

“Just little spots, little spots,” he said. “Just not quite risking enough. Not straightening the line out, just the ski was little… not quite caving in some places like it should have. But a great result.”

Vonn is not finished in Pyeongchang, however: she will compete in the alpine combined on Wednesday night (Thursday in South Korea).

“It’s been a fun ride and I hope tomorrow I can pull something out of the hat,” she said. “It’s sad, it’s my last downhill. I wish I could keep going, you know. I have so much fun and I love what I do, but my body probably can’t take another four years,” she added.

Caption:SOLDEU, ANDORRA – FEBRUARY 28: (FRANCE OUT) Lindsey Vonn of the USA competes during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women’s Super Combined on February 28, 2016 in Soldeu, Andorra. (Photo by Alexis Boichard/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)

American skier Lindsey Vonn, ranked first in the overall World Cup standings, announced on Facebook that she has decided to end her season due to three fractures in her knee.

Lindsey Vonn Ends Season After Knee Fractures

Von suffered the injuries after crashing Saturday in Andorra during a super-G race. She was carried off the mountain on a rescue sled. The original X-rays indicated a hairline fracture in her left knee, where the tibial plateau was stable and would permit her to compete. Vonn placed 13th in an Alpine Combine Sunday, and received the news of her fractures after undergoing an MRI and CT scan in Barcelona.

“Because I am currently leading the Overall World Cup standings, this is one of the toughest decisions of my career,” Vonn wrote. “With the World Championships in St. Moritz next year and the Winter Olympics in South Korea the following year, I cannot take that risk.”

Vonn, 31, holds a slim 28-point lead over her primary rival for the overall title, Swiss skier Lara Gut. She has had a great season thus far, clinching the downhill season-long title last month and breaking Annemarie Moser-Proell’s record for most World Cup downhill victories with her 37th in Italy in January. Vonn also became the first skier to win 20 crystal globes in her career.

“Of all the records this year that I’m breaking, it’s still really hard to process what I’m doing,” Vonn said after claiming the downhill title. “I won’t fully grasp the magnitude of everything until I’m done with my career.”

The skier has 76 world cup victories and is nearing the record of 86 held by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden.

This weekend, the women’s World Cup tour travels to Jasna, Slovakia, for a giant slalom and slalom.

This season has seen several top skiers out because of injuries, including American Ted Ligety, Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, and Anna Fenninger of Austria.

Vonn, who broke up with golfer Tiger Woods just last year, recently caused a stir after a pictorial in the Sports Illustrated showed her wearing nothing more than body paint.

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn recorded her fourth consecutive World Cup victory on Saturday in Are, Sweden, winning the giant slalom event. This is because of her initial training during after-school nightly training sessions she underwent Buck Hill in her home state of Minnesota.

Vonn went on the shortened course because of strong winds and hold on to her lead in the second run and clocked a two-run combined time of 2 minutes, 4.70 seconds. Even though she specializes in downhill and super-G, she has won four giant slalom events in her career. This one was no different because of the way the course was lit and it reminded of her when she was skiing in Minnesota. “I just like it. … It’s like the same landscape,” said Vonn. “When I was a kid I always trained under the lights after school. So I really like racing under the lights. It’s really fun.” Eva-Maria Brem of Austria finished second with a margin of 0.07 seconds behind Vonn while discipline leader Federica Brignone of Italy was third with a margin of 0.35 seconds.

Vonn had to take over the event because of U.S. teammate Mikaela Shiffrin having to miss the event because of a warmup crash. Shiffrin had to be taken to a hospital, so an MRI can be taken to see what damage was done to her right knee. Vonn’s lead over Shiffrin increased in the overall standings to 104 points while Lara Gut of Switzerland is third overall and 122 points back. This win was the 71st World Cup win for Vonn who is second behind Ingemark Stenmark’s mark of 86 victories. “I’m just trying to win. Every time I’m in the start I try to ski as fast as I can. I have nothing to lose and I think that makes me a dangerous competitor, because I’m not afraid of falling or losing,” Vonn said.

Well it appears the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships has not been kind to star skier Lindsey Vonn: after placing third in the opening Super G race, Vonn has failed to impress her home Beaver Creek crowd.

Since the opening bronze, she has competed in two events: the Downhill event and the Alpine Combined, which combines both downhill and slalom. In Friday’s Downhill event, Vonn failed to achieve a medal, finishing .71 seconds behind third place finisher Lara Gut. Tina Maze increased her dominance by attaining gold and the silver medalist was Anna Fenninger.

As for yesterday’s Alpine Combined, she failed to place as she did not finish her second run: in the first downhill portion, she managed a seventh place finish, but “[she] straddled a gate in her slalom run, [effectively] taking her out of the standings.” In the end, Tina Maze would win gold again: securing her third medal in three races.

After the race a very emotional Vonn talked to NBC Sports about her disappointment thus far: “I’m just really disappointed. It’s a hometown World Championships, and I really tried as hard as I could. I came up short, and that’s disappointing for myself, for my family and for my fans. I just didn’t figure out this hill at all. I’m disappointed today because I actually skied really good slalom the last two days [in training]. I thought I had a chance at getting a medal.”

Von’s final event is the Giant Slalom on Thursday: it will be her last chance to attain a medal and hopefully rectify what has been a disappointing 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.

Yesterday saw the opening of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships with the ladies’ Super G event: this race has been getting some press lately because of Lindsey Vonn — it is her first Super G World Championships race since her horrible accident in 2013, which halted her career for nearly two years.

As for the results, the race was extremely close with Vonn finishing in third with a time of 1:10.44, .15 behind the leader — it is her sixth World Championships medal and first since 2011 in Garmisch. As for the silver medalist, it was Tina Maze, who beat Vonn by .12 seconds and furthers her already amazing year. She currently sits on top of the World Cup standings 184 points ahead of the nearest athlete,  Anna Fenninger — who is coincidentally the gold medal recipient for this Super G event. Fenninger defeated Maze by a very minute .03 seconds, giving the Austrian athlete her fourth medal in this series.

Afterwards, Vonn commented on her performance, “I’m happy with the way I skied, I’m happy with the result — I just wish the weather was a little bit better… My mindset [at the start] was that I’m screwed — I definitely had a pretty strong headwind right out of the gate. I was already three-tenths out over the first 20 seconds and it’s a little bit hard to make that up.” In other words, she started slow out of the gate and was unsure if she was going to make up that time. As for the crowd and being back a Beaver Hill — a course she grew up at — “I was a little bit nervous, but I feel like I had it under control. Maybe I was a little bit stiff on the first couple of gates, but that’s nit-picking.”

As for the next event for Vonn, she has the downhill race on Friday. Hopefully, the course will see better weather, as two separate downhill training events and the men’s Super G were cancelled because of heavy winds and snowfall. And for everyone wondering if Vonn’s boyfriend showed up, Tiger Woods was there in support despite having to play in the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego this week.

United States’ Lindsey Vonn (pictured), who just achieved her record 63^rd FIS World Cup win, is training for the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. This biennial race — which happens every odd year to avoid being the same year as the Winter Olympics — takes place from Feb.  2 – 15 in Beaver Creek, Colo. This would be the third time this site was used for the Championship, with the last two occurring in 1989 and 1999, with the latter being the last time it was held in North America.

At the opening ceremony press conference, FIS President Gian Franco Kasper stated, “We are thrilled to be coming back to North America for the World Championships. Each edition that the Vail Valley has hosted has been bigger and better, and there is not a doubt in my mind that the next two weeks will be a fantastic celebration of Alpine ski racing both on the slopes and around the towns of Vail and Beaver Creek.”

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There are roughly 600 athletes who will compete in eleven medal events: ten of which take place at Beaver Creek and the other Nations Team Event happens at Vail.  Vonn is one of the athletes looking to secure another gold medal, with her last two coming in 2009 at Val-d’Isère for Downhill and Super-G. And in 2015, she will compete in her first World Championship Super-G since her horrific accident in 2013, which halted her career for two years with a severe knee injury.

As for ways to watch the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, FIS is proud to unveil that all broadcast operations will be done through the European Production Coordination (EPC): being broadcast in 27 countries, each race comes in HD with “more than 201 camera angles.” But what they are most excited about is that “for the first time at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships live online programming will be available free-of-charge for all races through the EBU video player, which can be also found on the FIS website.”

This is certainly the FIS’ most popular event next to the Winter Olympics and it seems that its new online availability will give any person, fan or not, the ability to watch and be a part of the festivities.

Tiger Woods made a surprise visit to Italy to watch his girlfriend Lindsey Vonn win her record 63rd World Cup race: there he attempted to remain anonymous by wearing a skull ski mask, but quickly the media caught on.

But the real incident happened when Vonn actually completed her amazing feat: according to Wood’s agent, Mark Steinberg, the star golfer’s tooth was knocked out when a rush of cameramen raced towards the award podium to see Vonn. A shoulder-mounted camera struck the golfer in the face, loosening a tooth and creating the  image that has now been circulating the web.

According to the race organizers, no such accident was reported to them. Now despite losing a tooth, this incident should win the golfer huge boyfriend points: Woods will return to the Waste Management Phoenix Open next week.

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