{"id":6666,"date":"2026-02-09T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6666\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:18:06","slug":"lindsey-vonn-undergoes-second-surgery-after-olympic-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6666\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn undergoes second surgery after Olympic crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Vonn has undergone two surgical procedures on her left leg following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helsinkitimes.fi\/themes\/themes\/sports\/28497-lindsey-vonn-undergoes-surgery-after-olympic-downhill-fall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">serious crash<\/a> during the women\u2019s downhill at the Milan\u2013Cortina Winter Olympics, according to sources cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/us-skiing-great-vonn-had-two-operations-after-leg-fracture-2026-02-09\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Reuters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/sport\/dossier\/olimpiadi-invernali\/2026\/02\/09\/news\/vonn_condizioni_incidente-425148539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">La Repubblica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old American skier suffered a major fracture after falling around 13 seconds into her run on Sunday. The crash ended her attempt to win another Olympic medal despite racing with a fully ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Vonn was airlifted from Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo to Ca\u2019 Foncello Hospital in Treviso, about 80 miles away. Doctors there carried out two operations aimed at stabilising her condition and preventing complications linked to swelling and blood circulation, a source told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The surgical team included Italian orthopaedic and plastic surgeons. Vonn\u2019s personal physician attended the procedures but assisted only, with local specialists leading the operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Hospital officials initially confirmed one procedure on Sunday but did not disclose the second at the time. A planned medical update on Monday morning did not take place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>International Ski Federation president Johan Eliasch said the responsibility lies with the athlete. \u201cI firmly believe that this has to be decided by the individual,\u201d he told reporters. He described the accident as rare, saying Vonn became caught on a gate while airborne.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Vonn entered the downhill less than two weeks after sustaining the ACL injury during a World Cup race in Switzerland. She acknowledged the risk before the event and said she intended to compete regardless of the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Her coach, Aksel Lund Svindal, shared details of their exchange after the crash. Writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUiMfLICEgs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, he said Vonn\u2019s first concern focused on her teammate. \u201cSay congratulations and well done to Breezy,\u201d he recalled her saying before the helicopter flight to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>HT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn has undergone two surgical procedures on her left leg following a serious crash during the women\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[87],"tags":[5823,158,113,5179,5826,5824,5825,2739],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-helsinki","tag-alpine-skiing","tag-finland","tag-helsinki","tag-lindsey-vonn","tag-olympic-downhill-crash","tag-surgery","tag-treviso-hospital","tag-winter-olympics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}