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Winter Olympics

Lindsey Vonn, having decide to do an Olympic alpine ski run with a torn ACL has just had an absolutely huge crash. Looked so bad.

Being helicoptered off the hill! Just an insane crash.
 
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MartyFunkhouser said:
I really hope she is ok, had a beer with my mate who had a bad ACL last night and he said "I can't see how she is doing this, standing up was my goal for a month"..........
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Just an insane decision...this was only last week!

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MartyFunkhouser said:
I really hope she is ok, had a beer with my mate who had a bad ACL last night and he said "I can't see how she is doing this, standing up was my goal for a month"..........
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My wife fell and damaged her ACL a month ago. Damaged, not torn, and She can't even stand up straight yet!
Madness to even consider doing any sort of leasurely activities, let alone racing downhill!
Went exactly as I anticipated.
 
Kandi1977 said:
My wife fell and damaged her ACL a month ago. Damaged, not torn, and She can't even stand up straight yet!
Madness to even consider doing any sort of leasurely activities, let alone racing downhill!
Went exactly as I anticipated.
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My mate was saying he felt the ACL story was fabricated because anyone we knew had the same story and skiing absolute does for your knees, man does he feel bad now hahaha. All jokes aside, I honestly do hope she is ok, looked terrible
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
My mate was saying he felt the ACL story was fabricated because anyone we knew had the same story and skiing absolute does for your knees, man does he feel bad now hahaha. All jokes aside, I honestly do hope she is ok, looked terrible
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I hope she's OK too, but I can't say I feel sorry for her. She took the decision herself, knowing the risk, and thus have to accept the consequences. If she really had a torn ACL, which I actually doubt, it was only going to end one way.
 
Kandi1977 said:
I hope she's OK too, but I can't say I feel sorry for her. She took the decision herself, knowing the risk, and thus have to accept the consequences. If she really had a torn ACL, which I actually doubt, it was only going to end one way.
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I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I don't think it even came into affect on this crash. Her right arm got caught on one of the gates and twisted her around. Of course, the mental aspect might (has to) have played a part.
 
tommysvr said:
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I don't think it even came into affect on this crash. Her right arm got caught on one of the gates and twisted her around. Of course, the mental aspect might (has to) have played a part.
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That's correct. Her knee was not the direct issue, although I think it might have played a part, that she wanted to cut the corner tight, to minimise the amount of time she has to put all the pressure on the left leg. No one else took that line.
 
That crash was sickening for Vonn, my initial thoughts were she shouldn’t have been allowed to compete in this but then Bell said in comms that he competed with an ACL injury back in the 80’s and it was ok. Just feels bizarre for us mere mortals to comprehend it.

Such a tragic end to basically the GOAT of women’s skiing.
 
Gazza Dazzla said:
That crash was sickening for Vonn, my initial thoughts were she shouldn’t have been allowed to compete in this but then Bell said in comms that he competed with an ACL injury back in the 80’s and it was ok. Just feels bizarre for us mere mortals to comprehend it.

Such a tragic end to basically the GOAT of women’s skiing.
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I thought so too...apparently it's more common than I realised?! This Aussie, at 18 years old(!) decided to do the same thing: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...milano-cortina-2026-winter-olympics/106316542

I might be able to 'excuse' a 41 year old doing it...but 18 seems so reckless. But again...maybe just my ignorance of the sport:

However, the brave teenager told ABC Sport in December that because it was an isolated compete tear of the ACL, she would do no further damage by continuing to ski on it.

"I was really lucky I didn't do any damage to any of the other ligaments around it," she said in December.

"It was just a bit of a freak accident, which is a good thing, but also bad thing because it wasn't really any fault of my own, so it hasn't really affected my confidence hugely.

"I had to speak to a lot of different people, and they're said ultimately the choice is yours.

"It's not going be a huge negative if you're skiing without the ACL, It's not going heal on its own and we're not going waste time trying to figure out if it's going heal on its own. We'll just accept that it's gone and then keep going to the Olympics and then afterwards get surgery.

"And I was happy with that anyway.

"At first I was like, 'Oh, like my world's like ending', but for me at the moment, I don't feel like I'm really having an injury."
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Real tinkle take that there's no coverage of the other women who had a major crash and was airlifted to hospital from the same event. No doubt because she's from Andorra and not the USA. Cande Moreno went down really hard and tore her ACL.
 
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