"Seeing if Lindsey Vonn can contend for a medal in the Olympic downhill at age 41 with a titanium replacement in her right knee to cap her comeback after nearly six years of retirement was already going to be one of the highlights of the Milan Cortina Olympics. Add in that she will now be competing in Sunday's race with a completely ruptured ACL, bone bruising and meniscal damage in her left knee?"
"My life does not revolve around ski racing. I am a woman that loves to ski. I don't have an identity issue, I know exactly who I am. I was retired for 6 years and I have an amazing life, Vonn posted Saturday on X. I don't need to ski, but I love to ski. I came all this way for one final Olympics and I'm going to go and do my best, ACL or no. It's as simple as that."
"Sofia Goggia, Vonn's biggest rival in downhill and one of her best friends on the circuit, recalled how she came back to win silver at the 2022 Beijing Games after a similarly severe injury. Goggia had a few weeks to recover after spraining her left knee, partially tearing her ACL and suffering a minor fracture of the fibula bone in her leg, plus some tendon damage."
Lindsey Vonn is attempting an Olympic downhill at age 41 after coming out of nearly six years of retirement and with a titanium replacement in her right knee. She suffered a completely ruptured ACL, bone bruising and meniscal damage in her left knee just nine days after a crash in the final downhill before the Games. Vonn responded on social media that skiing is a passion, not an identity, and that she came for one final Olympics to do her best. Sofia Goggia noted her own similar recovery and urged future judgment.
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