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Lindsey Vonn returns home to US following horror crash as skiing legend opens up on ‘severe’ injury
Lindsey Vonn has returned home to the United States following her horror crash at the Winter Olympics.
On 8 February, the 41-year-old American athlete suffered a leg fracture after crashing hard in the downhill event. She decided to compete despite having ruptured her left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in a crash in a World Cup race in Crans-Montana, Switzerland last month.
In a montage posted on Instagram on Tuesday (17 February), the skiing legend can be seen being lifted out of the hospital in Italy by a large team of medics, who transferred her onto plane back to the US.
“My injury was a lot more severe than just a broken leg. I’m still wrapping my head around it, what it means and the road ahead,” she wrote.
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