Lindsey Vonn trains after ruptured ACL, eyes Olympic downhill event on Sunday

Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn was again in coaching simply days after she “utterly tore” her ACL in a crash, a setback that got here only a week earlier than the American skier was set to make her return to the Milan Cortina Winter Video games.

In a video posted to her social media on Thursday, Vonn carried out a sequence of exercises together with squats, field jumps and facet lunges. She wore a knee brace on her left leg because of the various accidents she suffered on Saturday after a crash throughout a World Cup race in Switzerland.

Lindsey Vonn holds her left knee after a crash in the course of the ladies’s World Cup downhill in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on January 30, 2026. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone through AP)

“I am not giving up,” she wrote within the caption of an Instagram submit. “I am working as onerous as I can to make it occur!”

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“Thanks to my workforce and everybody in your unimaginable assist,” she continued. “Maintain the religion.”

Vonn introduced the extent of her accidents on Tuesday however stated she’s going to proceed along with her aim of competing in her first occasion, the ladies’s downhill, on Sunday.

“I utterly tore my ACL. I even have bone bruises, which is a typical harm whenever you tear your ACL, plus meniscal injury, which we’re unsure if it was pre-existing or from the crash,” she informed reporters at a information convention.

“We have now undergone intensive therapies, consulted medical doctors, went to the health club and right now I went snowboarding. And given how my knee feels, my knee feels secure, I really feel sturdy, my knee shouldn’t be swollen and with the assistance of a knee brace I’m assured that I can compete on Sunday.”

Lindsey Vonn attends a press convention with the ski workforce on the 2026 Winter Olympics. The occasion passed off in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on February 3, 2026. (AP Picture/Fatima Shbair)

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Vonn’s head coach, Chris Knight, informed The Related Press on Wednesday that he’s “fairly assured” Vonn will get it accomplished. With a view to take part in Sunday’s competitors, she must attend at the very least one coaching session.

“I’ve little question this can work out,” Knight added. “She’s been doing field jumps, she’s attempting every kind of issues, masses and stresses and issues like that simply to see the place she’s at and to see how she feels and he or she comes out all proper.”

The 41-year-old Vonn made a shocking comeback to the game final yr after nearly six years away from the competitors. Her return adopted a partial titanium alternative in her proper knee, which she had accomplished in 2024.

Lindsey Vonn takes half within the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup ladies’s downhill on the Prampero slope on Monte Lussari. The occasion passed off in Tarvisio, Italy, on January 17, 2026. (Mattia Ozbot/Getty Photos)

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“In downhill it’s a very harmful sport and something can occur. And since I push the boundaries, I fall,” Vonn stated on Tuesday. “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 as finest I can.”

Vonn is scheduled for her first Olympic occasion within the ladies’s downhill on Sunday. She will even compete within the super-G occasion and the brand new workforce mixed occasion.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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