{"id":276085,"date":"2026-02-10T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276085\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:56:08","slug":"lindsey-vonn-says-she-has-complex-tibia-fracture-from-winter-olympics-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276085\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn says she has \u2018complex tibia fracture\u2019 from Winter Olympics crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">She continued: \u201cMy Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn\u2019t a story book ending or a fairy tale, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBecause in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">Vonn gave no indication whether she intends to bring an end to a career that has made her one of the most recognisable faces in world sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">She has already had two surgeries to stablise the fracture of her left leg, according to reports in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">Vonn won the Olympic downhill at the 2010 Vancouver Games but retired in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">She had resumed her career in late 2024 and was considered a strong favourite for the downhill at these Olympics after recording seven World Cup podium finishes, including two wins, before her pre-Olympics crash in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, where she damaged her ACL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5199,3549,15979,33236,67277,71,6871,116293,2510,5971,111,139,69,5106,3048,312,20863,213,2737,31145,65837,155461,1865,116294,1316,23644,6730],"class_list":["post-276085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-complex","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-downhill","tag-fracture","tag-from","tag-has","tag-lindsey","tag-multiple","tag-need","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olympics","tag-said","tag-says","tag-she","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-suffered","tag-surgeries","tag-tibia","tag-today","tag-vonn","tag-when","tag-winter","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}