The 2026 Winter Games in Milan-Cortina did not end well for American skiing legend Lindsey Vonn.
Vonn suffered a torn ACL days before her Olympic run, but somehow still managed to compete in the Olympics. During the women’s downhill event, Vonn suffered a scary crash just 14 seconds into her run that saw her get airlifted off the course.
On Monday, Vonn took to Instagram to give an update, and she revealed the injury diagnosis.
Vonn described the injury as a “complex tibia fracture” and added that her “ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever.”
The crash took place at the Olympia delle Tofane course in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, and reports immediately came out that she underwent “orthopedic surgery to stabilize the fracture she sustained in her left leg.”
The left leg was the same one where Vonn tore her ACL just days prior, so it’s been a rough turn of events for the American legend.
“Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would,” Vonn wrote on Instagram. “It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tail, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches.”
Vonn came out of retirement to compete in this year’s games, and she has three gold medals in her career.
