Lindsey Vonn, Olympics with broken knee: here’s how she skis

Lindsey Vonn will compete at the Milan-Cortina Olympics with a broken cruciate: courage or madness? Moreover, the American champion is no stranger to feats of this kind: “In 2019 I won a medal at the World Championships without cruciate and with three fractures of the tibial plateau. Today I went back to skiing and I feel stable, I feel strong. My knee is not swollen and with the help of a brace I am confident I will be able to compete on Sunday”, she explained, justifying her decision to take to the track anyway. But Is it actually possible to compete with a broken knee? He explained it Professor Alessandro Massédirector of Orthopedics at the Città della Salute Hospital in Turin and professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Turin.