Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
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Lindsey Vonn crashed in her run on Sunday, bringing her Olympic downhill dream to an end after coming into the Games with a “completely ruptured” ACL.
The American burst out of the begin in the remaining however caught a gate along with her proper arm after simply 13 seconds, sending her tumbling down the slope to a halt.
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Total silence then fell throughout the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo, as medics attended to the three-time Olympic medalist.
The 41-year-old was then airlifted off the course as the crowd stood to applaud her.
After a prolonged pause in the ladies’s downhill occasion, proceedings finally bought underway. Concern now turns to how critically Vonn has harm herself.
“Lindsey Vonn fell in the Olympic downhill and will be evaluated by medical staff,” the US Ski & Snowboard Team stated in a brief assertion on social media.
It was all the time going to be a threat for Vonn to compete at this yr’s Games after she suffered such a severe damage in a crash in Crans-Montana on the World Cup circuit on January 30.
She had accomplished two coaching runs forward of the remaining, although, and appeared to imagine she may nonetheless compete at the highest degree.
“I will race tomorrow in my final Olympic Downhill and while I can’t guarantee a good result, I can guarantee I will give it everything I have,” she wrote on Instagram on Saturday.
“But no matter what, I have already won.”
Some of her fellow athletes regarded emotional after watching the crash on Sunday, apprehensive about the harm Vonn might need sustained.
“We all know the difficulties that Lindsey was going through these last days and to come to the race I think she just leveled up too much and risked too much and that’s why this kind of crash can happen,” retired Slovenian skier and two-time Olympic gold medalist Tina Maze informed Eurosport.
“It’s really tough for everyone here to see this and especially for her family, her teammates and everyone working with her. It’s terrible for everyone.”
Vonn’s sister Karin Kildow informed NBC that the crash was scary to see and that the snowboarding legend was being evaluated. She additionally stated Vonn would don’t have any regrets about her resolution to compete.
“She always goes 110%, there’s never anything less, so I know she put her whole heart into it and sometimes, just like things happen,” Kildow stated.
“It’s a very dangerous sport and there’s a lot of variables at play, so I don’t really know exactly what happened, but it did look like a pretty rough fall, so we’re just hoping for the best.”
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