Lindsey Vonn tells Vanity Fair she isn't ruling out return to ski racing, even after almost losing her leg
Vonn's 2024 comeback saw her reach this year's Milan Cortina Olympics before crashing out in the Games' downhill event.
Lindsey Vonn shattered her left leg and broke her right ankle 13 seconds into her downhill race on Feb. 8 early in the Milan Cortina Olympics . The 41-year-old skier clipped a gate and crashed, ultimately needing a slew of surgeries to treat her left leg, which could have been lost due to compartment syndrome, as reported by Vanity Fair on Thursday .
In Elise Taylor’s cover story for the magazine, Vonn and others detailed her exhausting hospital experience after her devastating airlift. The 2010 Olympic downhill gold medalist and four-time overall World Cup champion also said she’s not ruling out a return to ski racing. “I don’t like to close the door on anything, because you just never know what’s going to happen,” Vonn told Vanity Fair.
“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. I could have no kids and want to race again.
I could live in Europe. I could be doing anything. ” She added, per Vanity Fair: “It’s hard to tell with this injury.