{"id":8113,"date":"2026-02-15T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=8113"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:45:46","slug":"lindsey-vonn-breaks-silence-after-fourth-surgery-following-brutal-olympic-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=8113","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn Breaks Silence After Fourth Surgery Following Brutal Olympic Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lindsey Vonn<\/strong>\u00a0is not asking for any sympathy after undergoing her fourth surgery following her catastrophic\u00a02026 Winter Olympics\u00a0crash.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSurgery went well today!\u201d Thankfully I will be able to finally go back to the US! Once I\u2019m back I will give you more updates and info about my injury\u2026 But until then, as I sit here in my bed reflecting, I have a few thoughts I\u2019d like to share\u2026\u201d Vonn, 41, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, February 14, along with a video of the Olympian skiing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have been reading a lot of messages and comments saying that what has happened to me makes them sad,\u201d Vonn continued. \u201cPlease, don\u2019t be sad. Empathy, love and support I welcome with an open heart, but please not sadness and sympathy. I hope instead it gives you strength to keep fighting, because that is what I am doing and that is what I will continue to do. Always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vonn added, \u201cWhen I think back on my crash, I didn\u2019t stand in the starting gate unaware of the potential consequences. I knew what I was doing. I chose to take a risk. Every skier in that starting gate took the same risk. Because even if you are the strongest person in the world, the mountain always holds the cards.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\"><\/div>\n<p>Team USA supporters and fans across the world have been following Vonn\u2019s road to the 2026 Winter Olympics after she announced her\u00a0return to professional skiing. (Vonn\u00a0retired in 2019\u00a0following the World Championships in Sweden, but announced her comeback in 2024.)<\/p>\n<p>While competing at a World Cup race in Switzerland on January 30,\u00a0Vonn tore her ACL\u00a0completely \u2014 just nine days before Olympic competition.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Nh\u1eefng ng\u01b0\u1eddi \u1ee7ng h\u1ed9 v\u00e0 ng\u01b0\u1eddi h\u00e2m m\u1ed9 \u0111\u1ed9i tuy\u1ec3n M\u1ef9 tr\u00ean to\u00e0n th\u1ebf gi\u1edbi \u0111\u00e3 theo d\u00f5i h\u00e0nh tr\u00ecnh c\u1ee7a Vonn \u0111\u1ebfn Th\u1ebf v\u1eadn h\u1ed9i m\u00f9a \u0111\u00f4ng 2026 sau khi c\u00f4 tuy\u00ean b\u1ed1 tr\u1edf l\u1ea1i thi \u0111\u1ea5u tr\u01b0\u1ee3t tuy\u1ebft chuy\u00ean nghi\u1ec7p . (Vonn \u0111\u00e3 gi\u1ea3i ngh\u1ec7 v\u00e0o n\u0103m 2019 sau Gi\u1ea3i v\u00f4 \u0111\u1ecbch th\u1ebf gi\u1edbi \u1edf Th\u1ee5y \u0110i\u1ec3n, nh\u01b0ng \u0111\u00e3 tuy\u00ean b\u1ed1 tr\u1edf l\u1ea1i v\u00e0o n\u0103m 2024.)\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUwFNA2DemT\/embed\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=1316&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usmagazine.com&amp;rp=%2Fentertainment%2Fnews%2Flindsey-vonn-shares-update-after-4th-surgery-following-olympics-crash%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A968.6999999999534%7D\" height=\"1028\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origwidth=\"\" data-origheight=\"1028\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter extensive consultations with doctors, intense therapy, physical tests as well as skiing today, I have determined I am capable of competing in the Olympic Downhill on Sunday,\u201d Vonn said on February 1, noting she\u00a0planned to race\u00a0even without her ACL in tact. \u201cOf course I will still need to do one training run, as is required to race on Sunday, but\u2026 I am confident in my body\u2019s ability to perform. Despite my injuries my knee is stable, I do not have swelling and my muscles are firing and reacting as they should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vonn took the slope on Sunday, February 8, for her women\u2019s downhill run. Unfortunately, tragedy struck 13 seconds into her run when she crashed and was eventually airlifted from the course to an Italian hospital. Vonn subsequently \u201cunderwent an orthopedic operation to stabilize a\u00a0fracture reported in her left leg\u201d and was \u201ctreated by a multidisciplinary team,\u201d a statement released by the Ca\u2019 Foncello hospital said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was willing to risk and push and sacrifice for something I knew I was absolutely capable of doing,\u201d Vonn continued on Saturday. \u201cI will always take the risk of crashing while giving it my all, rather not ski to my potential and have regret. I never want to cross [a] finish line and say, \u2018what if?\u2019 And to be perfectly honest, I was stronger physically in that moment than I have been often in the past. Certainly stronger than I was when I ended [my] career in 2019 where I got a bronze medal in the World Championships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vonn added, \u201cAnd mentally\u2026 Mentally I was perfect. Clear, focused, hungry, aggressive yet completely calm\u2026 just as I had practiced over the past few months when I was on the podium in every downhill this season. 2 wins and leading the standings\u2026 that was all a test to prepare me for the Olympics. Mentally, I was more ready than I had ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vonn concluded her post by pointing out that \u201cjust because I was ready\u201d for the 2026 Winter Olympics \u201cdidn\u2019t guarantee me anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing in life is guaranteed. That\u2019s the gamble of chasing your dreams, you might fall but if you don\u2019t try you\u2019ll never know,\u201d she added. \u201cSo please, don\u2019t feel sad. The ride was worth the fall. When I close my eyes at night I don\u2019t have regrets and the love I have for skiing remains. I am still looking forward to the moment when I can stand on the top of the mountain once more. And I will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Vonn\u00a0is not asking for any sympathy after undergoing her fourth surgery following her catastrophic\u00a02026 Winter Olympics\u00a0crash. \u201cSurgery went well today!\u201d Thankfully I will be able to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}