"Lindsey Vonn said Monday in a post to Instagram that she suffered a complex tibia fracture when she crashed in the Winter Olympic downhill Sunday "that will require multiple surgeries to fix properly." Vonn raced the downhill despite tearing the ACL in her left knee nine days earlier in another crash. "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. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever," she wrote."
""She's 41 years old and this is the end of her career," Alan Kildow said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "There will be no more ski races for Lindsey Vonn, as long as I have anything to say about it." Kildow and the rest of Vonn's family -- a brother and two sisters -- have been with Vonn while she is being treated at a hospital in Treviso following her fall and helicopter evacuation from the course in Cortina on Sunday. The hospital late Sunday released a statement saying Vonn had undergone surgery on her left leg, and the U.S. Ski Team said she was in stable condition."
Lindsey Vonn suffered a complex tibia fracture when she crashed in the Olympic downhill and will require multiple surgeries to repair the injury. Vonn had torn the ACL in her left knee nine days earlier but still raced the downhill. The crash occurred after her right arm hooked inside a gate, twisting her off line by about five inches. Vonn expressed no regrets and said having a chance to win was a victory in itself while acknowledging the inherent danger of downhill skiing. Her father declared the end of her racing career. Family members accompanied Vonn at a Treviso hospital where she underwent surgery and was reported in stable condition; she will not return to the Olympics.
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