Lindsey Vonn shares she hasn't been able to stand for 'over a week' after Olympic crash

American Olympian Lindsey Vonn shared Monday that she hasn’t been capable to basal connected her ain 2 feet successful implicit a week, but was gladsome to beryllium backmost successful the United States.

Vonn suffered immense Olympic heartbreak connected Feb. 8 erstwhile she broke her limb successful a hard clang successful alpine skiing women’s downhill earlier successful the 2026 Milan Cortina Games. She attempted to powerfulness done a ruptured ACL to marque the podium, but the latest wounded acceptable her farther back.

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US' Lindsey Vonn (R) speaks to her Norwegian manager Aksel Lund Svindal (L) up of an authoritative grooming for the women's downhill lawsuit during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre successful Cortina d'Ampezzo connected Feb. 7, 2026. (Marco BERTORELLO / AFP via Getty Images)

She had since revealed that she underwent aggregate surgeries to repair the leg. She said she’ll apt request much country backmost successful the U.S.

"Haven’t stood connected my feet successful implicit a week… been successful a infirmary furniture immobile since my race. And though I’m not yet capable to stand, being backmost connected location ungraded feels amazing," she wrote successful a station connected X.

"Huge convey you to everyone successful Italy for taking bully attraction of me."

Vonn, 41, needed to beryllium airlifted disconnected an Italian upland successful a scary country during her downhill competition.

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Lindsey Vonn speeds down the people during alpine skiing women’s downhill authoritative grooming astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, connected Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati))

Officials astatine an Italian infirmary wherever Vonn was rushed aft the clang said she underwent country to "stabilize a fracture reported successful her near leg." Vonn had said she suffered a "complex tibia fracture that is presently unchangeable but volition necessitate aggregate surgeries to hole properly."

Before the Games began, galore wondered however Vonn would skis on her ruptured ACL, but she was determined to effort to medal successful her signature event. Her runs connected Friday and Saturday went fine, but she mislaid power a fewer seconds into her run, and things got precise superior afterward.

Vonn said past week she had nary regrets astir her determination to race.

"While yesterday did not extremity the mode I had hoped, and contempt the aggravated carnal symptom it caused, I person nary regrets. Standing successful the starting gross yesterday was an unthinkable feeling that I volition ne'er forget," she wrote successful a abstracted Instagram post. "Knowing I stood determination having a accidental to triumph was a triumph successful and of itself. I besides knew that racing was a risk. It ever was and ever volition beryllium an incredibly unsafe sport.

"And akin to skis racing, we instrumentality risks successful life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t execute the dreams we cognize we could have. But that is besides the quality of life; we tin try.

United States' Lindsey Vonn crashes 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)

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"I tried. I dreamt. I jumped."

Fox News’ Scott Thompson and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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