Vonn says she suffered complex tibia fracture, Olympics ‘did not finish the way I dreamt’
The 41-year-old needs multiple surgeries and did not indicate if she intends to retire after hitting a gate in downhill run at Winter Olympics
US ski star Lindsey Vonn said on Monday she had suffered a “complex tibia fracture” when she crashed in the Winter Olympics downhill and would need “multiple surgeries”.
The 41-year-old insisted that the ruptured anterior cruciate ligament she had sustained in a crash in a World Cup race before the Milano Cortina Games “had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever”.
“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,” she added on her social media, from the hospital in the Italian city of Treviso where she is being treated.
Vonn crashed heavily just 13 seconds into her run after hitting a gate on the piste, her skis remaining attached to her ski boots as she uncomfortably slid to a halt.
“I sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly,” she said.