For the second time in two weeks, Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn has been airlifted to a hospital after sustaining an damage in a downhill crash.

In the course of the girls's downhill occasion on the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, the 41-year-old ski legend misplaced management over the opening traverse after chopping the road too tight. Vonn was seen spinning within the air earlier than crashing and was subsequently heard screaming as medical personnel surrounded her. Inside quarter-hour, Vonn was strapped to a gurney and flown away in a helicopter.

The U.S. Ski & Snowboard Workforce has since introduced on social that Vonn was injured however is now in steady situation and in "good arms with a group of American and Italian physicians."

Leisure Weekly has reached out to the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Workforce for added info.

Vonn's newest damage comes simply 9 days after the skier tore the ACL in her left knee whereas touchdown a bounce in a World Cup race, when she misplaced management and have become tangled within the security nets on the course. Vonn acquired medical consideration on the web site and later took to social media to make clear that regardless of rupturing her ACL and sustaining meniscus injury and bone bruising, she remained decided to compete within the Winter Video games.

Following Vonn's damage Sunday, the president of the Worldwide Ski and Snowboard Federation, Johan Eliasch, mentioned that whereas he didn’t but know the severity of her damage, he would warning commentators towards blaming her knee damage for the crash.

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"Understanding Lindsey, she is aware of her physique, she is aware of her accidents, and she or he is aware of additionally what she's able to," Eliasch mentioned, per USA Today. "All people had such excessive expectations. And yeah, it's tragic, however once more, it's ski racing and accidents do occur."

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The ladies's downhill occasion resumed and was gained by Vonn's U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson, the reigning world champion.

"I hope it's not as dangerous because it appeared," Johnson mentioned of Vonn's crash in her post-race information convention. "Generally, since you love this course a lot, while you crash on it and hurts you want that, it hurts that a lot worse. My coronary heart simply goes out to her."

Vonn debuted on the 2002 Olympics as an adolescent. After successful three Olympic medals — a gold for a downhill race in 2010 and two bronzes, for the Tremendous-G in 2010 and downhill in 2018 — she retired in 2019, having suffered a number of knee accidents. Vonn introduced her return in 2024, after present process a partial knee substitute to increase her profession.

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