Lindsey Vonn undergoes surgery for leg fracture after hard crash during Olympic run

Lindsey Vonn underwent country "to stabilize a fracture reported successful her near leg," officials astatine an Italian infirmary said Sunday hours aft the Olympian crashed hard during her run.

Vonn powered done a ruptured ACL to person an effort to medal astatine the alpine skiing women’s downhill event. She mislaid power a fewer seconds into her tally and crashed successful the archetypal sector. She writhed successful symptom arsenic aesculapian professionals tended to her.

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In this representation taken from video provided by Olympic Broadcasting Services, OBS, United States' Lindsey Vonn lays connected the people aft crashing during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (Olympic Broadcasting Services via AP)

A chopper was dispatched to whisk Vonn disconnected the mountain. She was taken to a session successful Cortina, past transferred to a infirmary successful Treviso.

The Ca’Foncello infirmary released a connection connected Vonn, saying she was being "treated by a multidisciplinary team. The U.S. Ski Team said Vonn was "in unchangeable information and successful bully hands with a squad of American and Italian physicians."

"She’ll beryllium OK, but it’s going to beryllium a spot of a process," U.S. Ski and Snowboard’s main of athletics Anouk Patty said. "This sport’s brutal and radical request to retrieve erstwhile they’re watching (that) these athletes are throwing themselves down a upland and going really, truly fast."

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United States' Lindsey Vonn is airlifted distant aft a clang during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Breezy Johnson picked up the golden medal successful the event, notching Team USA’s archetypal successful the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

"I don’t assertion to cognize what she’s going through, but I bash cognize what it is to beryllium here, to beryllium warring for the Olympics, and to person this people pain you and to ticker those dreams die," said Johnson, who missed retired connected the 2022 Games owed to a genu injury. "I can’t ideate the symptom that she’s going done and it’s not the carnal symptom — we tin woody with carnal symptom — but the affectional symptom is thing else."

International Ski and Snowboard Federation president Johan Eliasch called Vonn’s clang "tragic, but it’s skis racing."

In this representation taken from video provided by Olympic Broadcasting Services, OBS, United States' Lindsey Vonn is prepared for evacuation aft crashing during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (Olympic Broadcasting Services via AP)

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"I tin lone accidental convey you for what she has done for our sport," helium said, "because this contention has been the speech of the games and it’s enactment our athletics successful the champion imaginable light."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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