Vonn is scheduled to have surgery at her home base in Vail, Colorado, early next week. Her doctor, the U.S. Ski Team's William Sterett, did not say when she would be back on the slopes but others have estimated it would take about six to eight months
Championship Super G race in Schladming, Austria. Her knee twisted every which way as she bounced down the mountain. She tore the anterior cruciate ligament and the medial collateral ligament in her right knee and sustained a tibial fracture. Ouch!
Lindsey Vonn (USA), crowned world champion in the discipline in Val d'Isere four years ago, tumbled down the Streciher piste and seriously hurt her right knee in a Super-G race taking place nearly four hours behind
For years, giving 90 percent was good enough. But with poor visibility and a course in rough condition, a fitness program thrown off by recent illness, and the pressure to beat Tina Maze, who is having the best season ever recorded, Vonn just couldn't
The reaction by fellow athletes to the harrowing crash that injured star skier Lindsey Vonn on Tuesday illustrated both sides of the growing safety issue in action sports. The athletes know it's dangerous, but that is part of the
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