Amid her continued restoration from a extreme leg damage, has acquired help from soccer legends Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimović.
On Monday, Feb. 23, Vonn revealed she might have misplaced her leg as the results of her earlier this month.
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The snowboarding star mentioned that along with advanced tibial fracture in her left leg, she had a tibial plateau fracture and fractured fibular head. She additionally broke her proper ankle. Vonn mentioned her extreme accidents led to compartment syndrome, which might have resulted in her leg being amputated.
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Lindsey Vonn of Workforce United States crashes in the course of the Girls’s Downhill on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic.
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Lindsey Vonn of Workforce United States crashes in the course of the Girls’s Downhill on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic.
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Lindsey Vonn of Workforce United States crashes in the course of the Girls’s Downhill on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic.
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Lindsey Vonn of Workforce United States crashes in the course of the Girls’s Downhill on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic.
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Lindsey Vonn of Workforce United States crashes in the course of the Girls’s Downhill on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic.
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Lindsey Vonn of Workforce United States crashes in the course of the Girls’s Downhill on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic.
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Lindsey Vonn of Workforce United States crashes in the course of the Girls’s Downhill on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic.
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A jumbotron exhibits U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn crashing within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Snoop Dogg reacts to the crash by American skier Lindsey Vonn in the course of the girls’s downhill on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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A Workforce USA supporter reacts after Lindsey Vonn crashed and was evacuated by helicopter within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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A helicopter arrives on the ski course to airlift Lindsey Vonn following her crash within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Followers of Workforce USA react after watching Lindsey Vonn crash within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Involved followers watch and wait after Lindsey Vonn’s crash within the girls’s downhill on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Followers react after watching Lindsey Vonn crash within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Spectators react after Lindsey Vonn crashed within the girls’s downhill on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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A helicopter airlifts Lindsey Vonn from the course after her crash within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Lindsey Vonn supporters react after Vonn’s crash in the course of the girls’s downhill race on the 2026 Olympic Winter Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Snoop Dogg reacts after United States skier Lindsey Vonn crashed within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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Followers applaud as a mountain rescue helicopter takes Lindsey Vonn after her crash in the course of the girls’s downhill on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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A helicopter airlifts Lindsey Vonn from the course after her crash within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
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A helicopter carries U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn after her crash within the girls’s downhill occasion on the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Feb. 8, 2026.
“Compartment syndrome is when you could have a lot trauma to 1 space of your physique, that there is an excessive amount of blood, and it will get caught, and it mainly crushes the whole lot within the compartment,” Vonn mentioned in an .
“All of the muscle and nerves and tendons, all of it form of dies. And Dr. Tom Hackett saved my leg. He saved my leg from being amputated.”
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Vonn acquired 1000’s of supportive feedback on her Instagram submit, together with from international icons Ronaldo and Ibrahimović.
Ibrahimović added merely: “Giving up shouldn’t be an possibility.”
Vonn was hospitalized in Italy for a bit of over every week earlier than being transferred to a hospital in Colorado. She mentioned she is hoping to be on crutches in a couple of weeks, with the bones unlikely to completely heal for a yr.
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The 41-year-old will then resolve whether or not to bear surgical procedure for the torn ACL she suffered in the identical leg every week earlier than the Olympics began.