Lindsey Vonn taking 'baby steps' after latest surgery that took over 6 hours: 'A lot of plates and screws'

It's beauteous wide that Lindsey Vonn has a agelong roadworthy ahead.

In 1 of her archetypal runs astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics earlier this month, caller disconnected a ruptured ACL she suffered a week earlier the Games, Vonn fell, resulting successful a compound fracture of her leg.

The 41-year-old was hoping to person immoderate hardware astir her neck, but instead, it's present wrong her body.

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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)

Vonn underwent her 5th country connected Thursday — this 1 accompanied by "a batch of plates and screws" that took much than six hours, she announced connected Instagram.

"Made it done surgery… it took a spot much than 6 hours to complete. As you tin see, it required a batch of plates and screws to enactment backmost unneurotic but Dr. Hackett did an unthinkable job. Thank you Dr. Viola for the country assistance arsenic well!!" Vonn posted.

"With the grade of the trauma, I’ve been struggling a spot station op and person not yet been capable to beryllium discharged from the infirmary conscionable yet… astir there. Baby steps. Will explicate the wounded and what it each means soon."

United States' Lindsey Vonn arrives astatine the decorativeness country of an alpine skis women's downhill training, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Vonn posted a video of herself being wheeled into different country and photos of X-rays with the plates and screws.

Vonn precocious revealed that her beloved canine of 13 years, Leo, died the time aft her crash.

"I said goodbye to my large lad arsenic I laid successful my infirmary bed," Vonn wrote connected X. "Been immoderate of the hardest days of my beingness and inactive person not begun to process his passing… I volition ever emotion you Leo."

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)

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Vonn, 41, needed to beryllium airlifted disconnected an Italian upland successful a frightening country during her downhill competition. She returned to the United States earlier this week.

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