Lindsey Vonn says Olympic injury will require multiple surgeries to repair

Female Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn updated fans Monday on the injury she sustained in Italy over the weekend, stating that she has a “complex tibia fracture” that will “require multiple surgeries” to repair properly.Vonn’s Olympic dreams came to a heartbreaking close Sunday after she crashed during a women’s alpine skiing downhill race at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Milano Cortina. She had been racing with a torn ACL but she said that did not cause the crash.
“In Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches,” she declared in a post on Instagram. “I was simply 5 inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever. 
“Unfortunately, I sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly,” she continued. “While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets. Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. I also knew that racing was a risk. It always was and always will be an incredibly dangerous sport.”
Vonn hoped to make a strong comeback after her crash last month, and said she did intensive rehab between the crash and the Olympics, as well as pool workouts and plyometrics, according to USA Today. 
The Olympian was also attempting to make a larger comeback after she retired in 2020. She began her comeback in 2024 with a partial knee replacement surgery in her right knee that April.
“Similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall,” the 41-year-old said in her Instagram post. “Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is also the beauty of life; we can try. 
“I tried. I dreamt. I jumped,” she continued. “I hope if you take away anything from my journey it’s that you all have the courage to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying.”
Vonn’s U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson ended up winning the Gold medal in the women’s alpine skiing downhill on Sunday with a time of 1:36.10. Germany’s Emma Aicher won silver and Italy’s Sofia Goggia took bronze.
Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.

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