U.S. skiing star Lindsey Vonn still faces ACL surgery as she continues to recover from the Winter Olympics crash in February that nearly led to the amputation of her left leg. But for now, I feel great, and I’m very thankful for that.” Vonn, 41, tore her ACL in a World Cup race in Switzerland on Jan. 30, just a week before the start of the Milano Cortina Olympics. Attempting to compete despite the injury, she sailed off course just 13 seconds into her Feb. 8 run in the women’s downhill at the Games and sustained a complex left tibia fracture that has required five surgeries to repair.
The operations on her tibia saved her leg but her ACL has not yet been fixed, she said Sunday. I may never race again and that would be completely fine,” Vonn told the in April.
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