Lindsey Vonn prepared to check injured left knee in Olympic downhill coaching run. ‘Let’s go get it!!’

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Per week after rupturing the ACL in her left knee, Lindsey Vonn inspected the Olympic downhill course with different racers Friday a few hours earlier than the opening coaching session in her pursuit of gold on the age of 41.

Vonn is planning to compete on the Milan Cortina Video games with a big brace overlaying her knee. She has been clear since her crash final week in Switzerland that she would go ahead regardless of an harm that many athletes would contemplate a season- or perhaps a career-ender.

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“Nothing makes me happier! Nobody would have believed I’d be right here,” Vonn wrote on social media because the solar got here out in Cortina beneath the Olympia delle Tofane course after a a number of days of clouds and snow . “However I made it!! I’m right here, I’m smiling and it doesn’t matter what, I understand how fortunate I’m. I’m not going to waste this opportunity. Let’s go get it!!”

The American star had a partial titanium alternative inserted in her proper knee in 2024 after which returned to ski racing final season after practically six years of retirement. She crashed through the ultimate World Cup downhill earlier than the Olympics in Crans-Montana final Friday. She was airlifted off the course solely to submit on social media later that day: “My Olympic dream isn’t over.”

With Thursday’s opening coaching session canceled resulting from heavy snowfall, there have been two periods remaining — Friday and Saturday — earlier than Sunday’s downhill race. She had the No. 10 bib, which means she can be the tenth skier on the course throughout Friday’s coaching.

Vonn holds the document of 12 World Cup wins in Cortina.

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