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Lindsey Vonn reportedly in intensive care: reason reassures

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According to reports from Reuters, L’Equipe and The Guardian, Lindsey Vonn is reportedly hospitalized in intensive care, but, and this is the most important aspect, she would not be in life-threatening danger. According to Ticinoonline, which quotes Reuters, this would be a measure decided to protect the privacy of the U.S. champion. “Lindsey Vonn has suffered an injury, but her condition is stable and she is in good hands with a team of American and Italian doctors”: this is what the U.S. Federsci reported.

Aldo SeghedoniLindsey Vonn, tremendous fall and end of Olympic dream in Cortina: photos

Lindsey Vonn falls after very few seconds in the downhill on the Tofane Olympia at Milan-Cortina 2026.
Thus ends the attempt to rewrite history by the champion. Astonished audience.
The race is immediately stopped after the fall of the American champion.
She closes in tears the dream of winning an Olympic medal at 41 years old.

Vonn aimed to overtake compatriot Breezy Johnson, in the lead up to that point.
Started with bib 13, she chooses a very high line at the'entrance of the first crossbar.
He hits a goal with his right shoulder, loses his balance and falls ruinously.

The'impact takes place on the'Olympia delle Tofane, a track where he had already triumphed twelve times in his career.
The screams of pain of the champion break the silence of Cortina.

In previous days she had revealed the complete rupture of the cruciate ligament in Crans Montana.
The'injury had occurred in the'last World Cup race before the Olympics.
The first responders arrive immediately on the track after the fall.
Vonn is immobilized and loaded onto the toboggan by rescuers.
The'helicopter transports the American champion away from the Tofane.

The 41-year-old U.S. champion, who was competing with a ruptured ACL in her left knee, fell at high speed on the Olympia slope of the Tofane, which has brought her so much joy in her career in the past. Medical staff immediately intervened and the very sore ski star was transported by helicopter to the hospital.

Examinations, performed at the Policlinico Codivilla in Cortina, showed a fracture in her left leg.

Vonn was immediately transferred to Treviso, to Ca’Foncello Hospital, early Sunday afternoon and underwent orthopedic surgery to stabilize the fracture.

On the web, debate broke out and many lashed out against the American&#8217s choice to run: “I’d told her she would risk killing herself, happy her. With a semi-prosthesis in one knee and a ruptured cruciate in the other you don&#8217t jump into a downhill race. He who is the cause of his own ill, let him weep for himself”, “For a selfishness she endangered her life and ruined the race of those who were starting after her”, “You don”t compete at that level with an already broken ACL”, is the tenor of the messages on Facebook and X.

“Wanting to participate in the Olympics in that condition is not healthy behavior, it is not competitive, it is recklessness especially of the medical-rehabilitation team”, “Super champion with an outsized ego. Do you have a ruptured ACL? Good. You stop. You ski with a prosthesis? Here. Now you have destroyed both your knees”, “I would sue whoever gave permission to compete with prosthesis and broken ACL”.

Daniele Masala, Olympic champion in the modern pentathlon in Los Angeles 1984 speaking at the microphones of Radio Rai, took an unhesitating stance in favor of Lindsey Vonn, defending her attitude and the choice that led her to compete in the downhill at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics despite a ruptured cruciate ligament only a week ago: “She did well, sport is also this. If he had won a medal today we would be talking about a’heroic feat”.

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