Lindsey Vonn to compete at Olympics despite ‘completely ruptured’ ACL

Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn confirmed Tuesday she’s going to compete within the Milan Cortina Video games, simply days after the American skier suffered a totally torn ACL following her crash throughout a World Cup race in Switzerland.

Vonn, 41, was flown off the course in Crans-Montana on Friday after she crashed whereas attempting to make a bounce in her remaining run. She appeared to have injured her left knee, and hypothesis about her standing on the Winter Olympics instantly got here into query.

Lindsey Vonn reacts after a crash throughout the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2025-2026 girls’s downhill race in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on January 30, 2026. (Stoff COFFRINI / AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

At a press convention on Tuesday, the American skier revealed the extent of her accidents and confirmed she’s going to nonetheless compete.

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“I utterly tore my ACL. I even have bone bruises, which is a standard harm whenever you tear your ACL, plus meniscus injury, which we’re undecided if it was pre-existing or from the crash,” she mentioned.

“We now have undergone intensive therapies, consulted docs, went to the gymnasium and at present I went snowboarding. And given how my knee feels, my knee feels secure, I really feel robust, my knee will not be swollen and with the assistance of a knee brace I’m assured that I can compete on Sunday.”

Vonn is scheduled to compete in her first Olympic occasion within the girls’s downhill on Sunday. She can even compete within the super-G occasion and the brand new group mixed occasion. Vonn mentioned that regardless of the uphill battle she faces resulting from her accidents, she nonetheless believes there may be “an opportunity.”

Lindsey Vonn is airlifted to a hospital after struggling an harm following a crash throughout her run within the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup girls’s downhill in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on January 30, 2026. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)

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“That is clearly not what I had hoped for. I’ve labored very arduous to come back into these Video games in a really completely different place. I do know what my probabilities have been earlier than the crash, and I do know my probabilities aren’t the identical as they’re now, however I do know there may be nonetheless an opportunity. And so long as there’s a likelihood, I’ll strive.”

Vonn has competed in eight World Championship races and completed on the rostrum in seven of them. Her worst end was fourth place. Final yr she made a shocking comeback to the game on the age of 40, after virtually six years away from competitors.

Vonn was a three-time Olympic medalist, together with gold within the downhill, and was anticipated to be a medal contender in Milan Cortina. Her final Olympic medal was bronze within the downhill in 2018.

Lindsey Vonn reacts after a crash throughout the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2025-2026 girls’s downhill race in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on January 30, 2026. (Substance COFFRINI / AFP by way of Getty Pictures))

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“In downhill it’s a very harmful sport and something can occur. And since I push the bounds, I fall. And I’ve been injured extra occasions than I wish to admit, however these are the playing cards I’ve been dealt in my life. And I’m going to play my playing cards the perfect I can,” Vonn added on Tuesday.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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