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No mercy with Lindsey Vonn: "She asked for it"

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Lindsey Vonn&#8217s drama is holding sway on social media: the American champion, chasing the last feat of her career, wanted to be there at all costs and compete in the Olympic downhill in Milan-Cortina despite a broken ACL in her left knee, and she fell after the early stages, freezing the crowd waiting for her at the finish line. The screams of pain of the American shook everyone: the’athlete was transported by helicopter to the hospital for examinations.

Luca FranzosiLindsey 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 away the American champion from the Tofane.

On the web, debate broke out, with many lashing 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 race with prosthesis and a broken ACL”.

There are those who, on the other hand, defended Vonn’s choice: “Criticism of Vonn for competing with a broken ACL is from patent haters, an athlete who has pushed her body beyond every imaginable limit to pursue excellence deserves only respect”.

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