Lindsey Vonn has released a statement.

[imanamerican63]

In her statement, she said that has no regrets and it’s not the way she wanted end her career.

She went on say that she broke her tibia and will require several surgeries which will take a while to recover from.


Story from Yahoo News.

[maxsolomon]

1. Imagine her saying something like:

"I deeply regret racing on a ruptured ACL." Never going to happen.

Hope she fully recovers, but man, that's going to be a long, painful road.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Depends on the break.

I broke my tibia and fibula a few years ago (in my 60s). Spiral fracture. Surgically repaired. I was back in my classroom teaching within a week. It would have been sooner, except I had to threaten legal action to get them to accommodate my disability by allowing me to work from home when I was not needed on campus to teach classes.

The pain was excruciating pre-surgery - when idiots in the ER didn't know how to stabilize it without twisting it, but I didn't need narcotics more than 2-3 days past surgery.

[maxsolomon]

18. I believe she said "multiple surgeries"

I'll stick with "long".

[Arthur_Frain]

15. She's already said the ACL rear had absolutely nothing to do with the break.

She had no business being there. IMHO.
(I’m a skier, I’ve torn my ACL, I do have cred here)

Great for what she was trying to do at 41. A shame that it turned out to be a lesson in “know your limitations”, but truthfully, it’s one of the best lessons we can re-learn. Just maybe not over and over and over.

All power to Lindsey in her recovery, it isn’t going to be easy, but I hope she gets back to a pain free 100 percent at 42.

Elated that Breezy won the event.

[maxsolomon]

19. The ACL tear probably had something to do with the fall, though...

I have an extruded meniscus that I snowboard with - it is limiting even if you're strong and skilled. Maybe if she'd backed off 10% in that bumpy traverse she'd have made it through. But "heedless" is her brand.

[Arthur_Frain]

20. I think so too

Despite her statement to the contrary. Yes, you can ski with a torn ACL, but now you’re compensating, and under ideal snow conditions where maybe you’re just skiing for the sake of joy, you could probably get away with it. Not in conditions that are challenging, not at an Olympic level of competition.

Life changes forever in an unguarded moment. Either you’re the type of person who doesn’t want to end up “what if”ing over missed opportunities, or you’re the type that doesn’t care to spend the rest of your life regretting your hubris.

I’m sure in my 60’s now, my equations run differently than hers at 41.

[maxsolomon]

21. 62 here.

I'm right there with you.

[GoCubsGo]

2. I love a good comeback story.

I'm so sad that hers didn't go the way she had hoped. Hope this injury doesn't affect her future quality of life.

[FakeNoose]

3. She could have lost her leg ... or her life

It's shocking that the coaches and team doctors allowed her to compete. Lindsey has set a bad example for other American athletes who have way less ability than she does.

[imanamerican63]

4. You probably are right, but......

she was doing for her mother’s memory and she said that in the very beginning.

Let her have her moment. She deserves it.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. She's a nearly middle-aged woman capable of making her own adult decisions.

FULL stop. Women don’t require permission to be “allowed” to compete.

Also: Athletes - even the female ones are not there to be anyones “example.” They are there to compete fairly under the rules of their sporrt.

[ruet]

22. What A Terrible Take.

Does this apply to, say, NFL players suspected of suffering a concussion during the course of a game? How about boxers or other combat sport participants who appear to have been or are on the verge of serious injury during a bout? They are full grown men capable of making their own adult decisions.

It was arrogant and delusionally stupid to attempt downhill skiing, of all things, on a recent ACL tear. ...man or woman.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. I understand needing to leave it all on the mountain. It was her choice, it's her body.

Now she will need to find.a new way forward and live.

[Henry203]

6. They will put a rod in her leg.

My son broke both the fibula and tibia. Paul George had the same break. It is healable. Notice you never see leg casts anymore. It has been replaced by a rod.It takes a year.

[imanamerican63]

8. I wore a soft cast when I broke my leg in 2001

And had a reconstruction surgery done in 2020 and a soft cast but couldn’t put any weight on my leg for 4 months and it was a 3 1/2 months before was to walk without the cast! It was very uncomfortable.

[Henry203]

10. Did you have reconstruction

Because it didn’t heal right? I had a friend when I was a kid. This guy borrowed my baseball spikes and didn’t know how to use them and really broke his leg. He was in a full cast and the leg moves regardless. He was never the same.
That is where the rod keeps the leg straight during healing.
My son said it really hurt.

[imanamerican63]

11. No, arthritis and bone spurs was not allowing my ankle to to move!

It was almost 20 years between the 2 surgeries.

Oh and my bone spurs were real!

[Ms. Toad]

12. With a rod it is far less than a year.

I was walking with a walker immediately, and weight bearing within a week or two. I don't remember how long I used a walker, but it wasn't that long (no more than a month, and I believe considerably less).

It does depend on where the break is. Mine was above the ankle, so I didn't need ankle reconstruction. That significantly extends the healing period.

[Henry203]

13. It took Paul George

About a year to compete in the NBA. That is for professional athletes to compete again.

[Ms. Toad]

14. That's a different issue than just healing.

I'm not an elite athlete. But the time to normal activities without restriction was far less than the usual healing time with casting (a month or so).

[Shermann]

16. I got a compression nail for a broken tibia and fibia

There was an incision on the front of my knee to insert it, and that was the spot that hurt the most during recovery. There was a loss of sensation in my shin though.

[Chemical Bill]

17. From what I read about it...

she caught the gate wrong. That spun her, so she couldn't have landed right.

Maybe it's the fault of the gate design....

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. This message was posted on Facebook

Her ACL had nothing to do with this injury

Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tail, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches.
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.
Unfortunately, I sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.
While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets. Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. I also knew that racing was a risk. It always was and always will be an incredibly dangerous sport.
And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. 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.
I hope if you take away anything from my journey it’s that you all have the courage to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying.
I believe in you, just as you believed in me.
❤️LV