{"id":469733,"date":"2026-02-15T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469733\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:44:13","slug":"lindsey-vonn-says-her-latest-surgery-after-olympic-crash-went-well-and-she-can-return-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469733\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn says her latest surgery after Olympic crash \u2018went well\u2019 and she can return to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) &#8211; Lindsey Vonn\u2019s latest surgery on her left leg that she broke in the Olympic downhill \u201cwent well\u201d and now she \u201cwill be able to finally go back to the U.S.,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUwFNA2DemT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUwFNA2DemT\/\">the American skiing standout said<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 41-year-old Vonn is being treated at a hospital in Treviso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She crashed 13 seconds into her run during last Sunday\u2019s race and was airlifted off the course by helicopter. She said Monday she had suffered a \u201ccomplex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Lindsey Vonn shared a photo from her hospital bed after a &quot;successful&quot; third surgery on her...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DE4UK7KYZ5CURIIYJ3WXPHULPY.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Lindsey Vonn shared a photo from her hospital bed after a &#8220;successful&#8221; third surgery on her broken leg.(Instagram\/@LindseyVonn via CNN Newsource)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She said on Wednesday that she had a \u201csuccessful\u201d third surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nine days before Sunday\u2019s crash, Vonn ruptured the ACL in her left knee in another crash. Even before then, all eyes had been on her as the feel-good story heading into the Olympics for her comeback after nearly six years of retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI have been reading a lot of messages and comments saying that what has happened to me makes them sad,\u201d Vonn said on Instagram. \u201cPlease, don\u2019t be sad. Empathy, love and support I welcome with an open heart, but please not sadness or sympathy. I hope instead it gives you strength to keep fighting, because that is what I am doing and that is what I will continue to do. Always.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen I think back on my crash, I didn\u2019t stand in the starting gate unaware of the potential consequences. I knew what I was doing. I chose to take a risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vonn\u2019s father, Alan Kildow, told The Associated Press on Monday that his daughter will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But Vonn concluded her latest message by saying she is \u201cstill looking forward to the moment when I can stand on the top of the mountain once more. And I will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">AP Olympics: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\">apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) &#8211; Lindsey Vonn\u2019s latest surgery on her left leg that she broke in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[172396,4,450,451,87371,218209,218206,218207,212293,3,218208,452,453,58926],"class_list":["post-469733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alpine-skiing","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-lindsey-vonn","tag-lindsey-vonn-broken-leg","tag-lindsey-vonn-crash","tag-lindsey-vonn-surgery","tag-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-news","tag-olympics-downhill","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}