Overview
- Vonn posted clips showing painful physiotherapy followed by her first smooth pedaling on a rehab bike, noting she is starting with five minutes and making daily progress.
- In a statement on X, she asked people to stop telling her what to do and left open the possibility of racing again, promising to announce a decision when she is ready.
- She crashed 13 seconds into the Olympic downhill on February 8 and was airlifted to Ca’ Foncello Hospital, where doctors treated a complex left tibia fracture and compartment syndrome with multiple operations.
- Vonn credited Dr. Tom Hackett with performing a fasciotomy that saved her leg after amputation was considered, and she later continued recovery in the United States.
- She has outlined an estimated year for bone healing before deciding on hardware removal and a subsequent definitive ACL procedure, keeping the near-term focus on rehabilitation.