For the first time since her terrifying Olympic crash, Lindsey Vonn has opened up about the split second that changed everything. According to the ski legend, it wasn’t fear or hesitation — it was a fraction-of-a-second misread that sent her body out of alignment and violently ended her run.
U.S. Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn has shared an update following her serious crash and evacuation from the course in Cortina on Sunday.
Vonn posted a heartfelt statement on social media Monday, offering her thoughts on what went wrong as she fell, how she’s felt since and why she doesn’t believe it was a mistake to compete despite having recently torn her ACL.
Her full statement is below:
“I was simply 5 inches too тιԍнт on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash,” Vonn wrote on the moment she fell. “My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever.”
Vonn added she suffered “a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.”
“And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life,” Vonn wrote. “We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is the also the beauty of life; we can try.
“I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.”
