Lindsey Vonn keeping return to skiing on table despite injuries: 'I don't like to close the door on anything'

Lindsey Vonn was aiming for Olympic golden past period successful Italy, but a clang led to 5 surgeries that saved her limb from being amputated.

In 1 of her archetypal runs astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics, caller disconnected a ruptured ACL she suffered a week earlier the Games, Vonn fell, resulting successful a compound fracture of her leg.

Vonn besides needed a humor transfusion owed to the magnitude of humor mislaid during the surgeries, including 1 that required "a batch of plates and screws" and took astir six hours.

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Lindsey Vonn speeds down the people during alpine skiing women’s downhill authoritative grooming astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, connected Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati))

But successful an interrogation with Vanity Fair, Vonn near the doorway unfastened to getting backmost onto the mountain.

"I don’t similar to adjacent the doorway connected anything, due to the fact that you conscionable ne'er cognize what’s going to happen," Vonn said. "It’s hard to archer with this injury. It’s truthful f---ed up."

Vonn initially retired successful 2019 but announced astir six years aboriginal that she was making a comeback. She made her mode onto the Olympic squad and recovered herself backmost successful regular form.

Lindsey Vonn of Team United States crashes during the Women's Downhill connected time 2 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics astatine Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre connected Feb. 8, 2026, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.  (IOC via Getty Images)

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That's wherefore she's not acceptable to officially telephone it quits.

"I truly consciousness similar that was a horrible past tally to extremity my vocation on. I lone made it 13 seconds. But they were a truly bully 13 seconds," she added.

Vonn's skis failed to popular disconnected during her crash, apt making the wounded worse than it needed to be. Vanity Fair noted that Vonn "spends astir each of her clip successful rehab," including 2 hours of carnal therapy and different 2 hours successful a hyperbaric chamber, each earlier she adjacent gets an authoritative workout in.

United States' Lindsey Vonn is airlifted distant aft a clang during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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If Vonn decides to telephone it, she volition inactive spell down arsenic 1 of the astir decorated skiers of each time, winning an Olympic golden successful 2010 and 2 World Championships portion besides owning 84 World Cup victories.

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