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Lindsey Vonn has broken her silence on her dramatic crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics and the injuries she’s now dealing with.
“Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would,” Vonn, 41, wrote in a post on Instagram. “It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tail [sic], it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it.”
Vonn shocked the world when she crashed just 13 seconds into her time competing in the women’s downhill run on the Olympia delle Tofane course in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. She had to be airlifted off the slope where she was taken to the hospital and reportedly underwent surgery on a broken leg.
The gold medalist surprised many by crashing so early into her run. Vonn — who was competing just days after tearing her ACL — tried to explain what went wrong in her Instagram statement.
“Because in Downhill ski racing the difference between a ...
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