The athletes make it look easy. But rest assured, it is an intense ride down the mountain.<\/p>\n
Video footage captured by a drone shows what it’s like to go down the course that Alpine skiers will look to tame during the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.<\/p>\n
Every turn shows how challenging the downhill course in Bormio is. <\/p>\n
The real question: Will Lindsey Vonn be one among those trying to make their way down as fast as they can?<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old American\u00a0is optimistic that she will be able to compete in the\u00a0Milan Cortina Winter Olympics downhill\u00a0on Sunday despite\u00a0a ruptured ACL\u00a0in her left knee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pretty confident that she can still pull off this dream,\u201d Chris Knight, Vonn\u2019s head coach, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019ve got no doubts in my mind that this is going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vonn\u2019s team of two physical therapists \u2014 Lindsay Winninger and Andi Mitterfellner \u2014 and fitness trainer Peter Meliessnig have been working overtime with her. Over the weekend, Vonn needed to use a crutch to get around. Just days later, she\u2019s performing box jumps, working out in a pool while wearing a weighted vest and skiing at high speed.<\/p>\n
Vonn said on Tuesday that surgery \u201chasn\u2019t been discussed.”<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not really on my radar screen right now. The Olympics are the only thing that I\u2019m thinking about,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery day my knee\u2019s gotten better. And every day we\u2019re discussing with a full medical team, doctors, physios, everyone, to make sure we\u2019re doing everything to make sure I am making smart and safe decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The athletes make it look easy. But rest assured, it is an intense ride down the mountain. Video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29209,51089,9,11,10,15559,21998],"class_list":["post-124099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-alpine-skiing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-olympics","tag-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}