After a fall
Ski star Lindsey Vonn announces Olympic decision
Updated February 3, 2026 – 5:56 p.mReading time: 1 min.
A few days before the start of the Olympic Games, ski star Lindsey Vonn clarified her participation.
Lindsey Vonn will compete in the Olympic ski races starting Sunday in Cortina d’Ampezzo. At a press conference in Italy she announced that she would ride despite a serious injury to her left knee.
“Last Friday I tore my cruciate ligament. But my knee isn’t swollen. So I want to try it on Sunday. I know I don’t have the same chances anymore. But I want to try,” she explained.
She also said that she currently has no pain and feels better than at the 2019 World Cup, where she did not suffer a torn cruciate ligament. “I want to make my country proud. That’s my goal.” She still left it open which races she would actually take part in. “I can’t give you that answer until I’ve actually skied, maybe at a speed of five miles an hour.”
The 41-year-old lost control after a bump in the last race in Switzerland last Friday and crashed into the safety fence. She then drove independently to the finish, but was taken to the hospital by helicopter. She had “a bad feeling” during the World Cup downhill, “but I kept my hope high, I didn’t cry.”
The World Cup record winner is already skiing with an artificial prosthesis in her right knee and wants to crown her famous comeback with her second gold medal in an Olympic downhill event since 2010.
