Lindsey Vonn won't rule out a return to skiing after horrific Olympics crash: 'You just never know'
U.S. ski racing legend Lindsey Vonn suffered major injuries to her left leg during a crash at the Winter Olympics but is not ruling out a return to competition.
U. S. ski racer Lindsey Vonn concentrates ahead of a training run Feb.
2 at the Milan-Cortina Olympics. (Marco Trovati / Associated Press) Lindsey Vonn is less than two months removed from a skiing accident at the Milan-Cortina Olympics that almost resulted in the amputation of her left leg. She has stopped taking painkillers but is still exhausted.
She is back home in Park City, Utah, but spends nearly all of her time in rehab. She is 41 and has won four overall World Cup championships, with 84 World Cup wins and three Olympic medals, including gold in the downhill at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Yet, Vonn would not definitively say that her competitive skiing career is over, during a recent interview with Vanity Fair's Elise Taylor .
Read more: Lindsey Vonn reveals that her beloved dog, Leo, died the day after her downhill crash at Olympics “I don’t like to close the door on anything, because you just never know what’s going to happen,” said Vonn, who appears on the magazine's cover in a long, black dress with a split that shows her left leg — bandages and all. “I have no idea what my life will be like in two years or three years or four years. I could have two kids by then.