{"id":1223,"date":"2026-02-08T22:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:42:37","slug":"should-lindsey-vonn-have-even-been-at-the-winter-olympics-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Should Lindsey Vonn have even been at the Winter Olympics? | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lindsey Vonn, 41, said she was willing to risk everything to become the oldest Alpine skiing medallist.<\/p>\n

Not even rupturing the ACL in her left knee racing nine days before the event was going to stop the 41-year-old American.<\/p>\n

“As long as there’s a chance,” she said after arriving in Italy, “I will try.”<\/p>\n

Hers was the most-anticipated event. It would have been even without the drama of the injury in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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Even if you are not the biggest Winter Olympics<\/strong><\/a> fan, you probably know her name.<\/p>\n

She came out of retirement last year at the age of 41, chasing the dream of a second Olympic gold to add to her 2010 downhill title.<\/p>\n

Could her body cope? Not only with the fresh injury, but racing on a right knee that was rebuilt from an injury in 2013.<\/p>\n

There was shock and despair in Cortina when she crashed 13 seconds out of the starting gate<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The fall may have been softened by the mandatory safety airbag that inflated after losing control, but screams could be heard from Vonn after landing awkwardly at high speed.<\/p>\n

And in a repeat of the scenes witnessed nine days earlier in Crans-Montana, she was taken to hospital on a stretcher dangling from the bottom of a helicopter.<\/p>\n

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Medics will now be assessing the long-term damage caused following surgery on her broken left leg.<\/p>\n

It could be a dramatic and horrific end to the career of one of the most successful female skiers of all time.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>
Water cannon and tear gas fired at Olympics protesters<\/strong><\/a>
Opening ceremony crowd ignored plea not to boo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And questions will be asked whether the American team should have allowed Vonn to compete and whether it was a risk too far.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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