Lindsey Vonn says she’ll want a number of surgical procedures to restore damaged leg after Olympic crash | CBC Sports activities – Worldwide Dispatch

Lindsey Vonn says she “sustained a posh tibia fracture that’s at the moment secure however would require a number of surgical procedures to repair correctly” after her devastating crash within the Olympic downhill.

Vonn posted an replace on Instagram late Monday about her left leg accidents, following her fall in Sunday’s race.

“Whereas yesterday didn’t finish the best way I had hoped, and regardless of the extraordinary bodily ache it brought on, I’ve no regrets,” Vonn mentioned.

9 days earlier than Sunday’s crash, the 41-year-old Vonn ruptured the ACL in her left knee. It’s an harm that sidelines professional athletes for months, however ski racers have once in a while competed that method. She appeared secure in two downhill coaching runs on the Milan Cortina Video games.

“My ACL and previous accidents,” she mentioned, “had nothing to do with my crash in any respect.

Earlier Monday, Vonn’s father mentioned that the American celebrity will not race if he has any affect over her determination and that she won’t return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her leg within the downhill over the weekend.

“She’s 41 years previous and that is the top of her profession,” Alan Kildow mentioned in a phone interview with The Related Press. “There will probably be no extra ski races for Lindsey Vonn, so long as I’ve something to say about it.”

Kildow and the remainder of Vonn’s household — a brother and two sisters, too — have been with Vonn whereas she is being handled at a hospital in Treviso following her fall and helicopter evacuation from the course in Cortina on Sunday.

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“She’s a really robust particular person,” Kildow mentioned. “She is aware of bodily ache and she or he understands the circumstances that she finds herself in. And he or she’s capable of deal with it. Higher than I anticipated. She’s a really, very robust individual. And so I feel she’s dealing with it actual effectively.”

Kildow — a former ski racer himself who taught his daughter to race — mentioned he slept in his daughter’s hospital room in a single day.

“She has any individual together with her — or a number of folks together with her — always,” Kildow mentioned. “We’ll have folks right here so long as she’s right here.”

Kildow and the remainder of Vonn’s household watched the crash from the end space with the entire different spectators.

“First, the shock and the horror of the entire thing, seeing a crash like that,” Kildow mentioned of watching the scene unfold. “It may be dramatic and traumatic. You are simply horrified at what these sorts of impacts have.

“You possibly can go right into a shock an emotional psychological shock, as a result of it is tough to only settle for what’s occurred. However she’s effectively cared for. And the USOC and the U.S. Ski crew have a really, very top-notch physician together with her, and she or he is being very effectively cared for right here in Italy.”

Vonn raced the downhill regardless of tearing the ACL in her left knee 9 days earlier in one other crash.

“What occurred to her had nothing to do with the ACL difficulty on her left leg. Nothing,” Kildow mentioned. “She had demonstrated that she was capable of perform at a really excessive stage with the 2 downhill coaching runs. And he or she had been cleared by excessive stage physicians to ski.”

Kildow mentioned the crash was much less a results of Vonn’s knee harm than the best way she pushed the bounds of her racing line to the purpose the place she clipped a gate early in her run and bought knocked uncontrolled.

“There are occasions typically in any race, however particularly in downhill, the place you must take just a little velocity off,” he mentioned. “You may give your self just a little bit extra leeway on the road so you do not put your self in a questionable place.”

Vonn, who holds the file of 12 World Cup victories in Cortina, returned to the circuit final season after practically six years of retirement and after a partial titanium alternative surgical procedure in her proper knee. She gained two downhills and completed on the rostrum in seven of the eight World Cup races that she completed this season — and got here fourth within the different one.

“She gained 84 World Cup races. And never many individuals do this,” Kildow mentioned, referring to Vonn’s victory complete, which place her second on the all-time girls’s listing behind teammate Mikaela Shiffrin’s file 108 wins.

“And there is a hell of lots of the distinction between a velocity race, a downhill particularly, and a slalom.”

Vonn won’t return to the Olympics to cheer on teammates or for anything, Kildow mentioned.

“No, she’s not that in form of scenario,” he mentioned. “She will probably be going house at an acceptable cut-off date.”