Lindsey Vonn Addresses Horrible Crash at Winter Olympics 2026, Reveals She Needs 'Multiple Surgeries'
Lindsey Vonn is addressing her crash at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The 41-year-old Olympian was unfortunately involved in a horrible accident on the ski slope while competing on Sunday (February 8). She ended up crashing and was airlifted to a hospital where she was “treated by a multidisciplinary team” and “underwent an orthopedic operation to stabilize a fracture reported in her left leg.”
The following day, Lindsey took to Instagram to share more details about her accident and injuries.
Keep reading to find out more…“Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would,” Lindsey began. “It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tail, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches.”
“I was simply 5 inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever,” she explained. “Unfortunately, I sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.”
The alpine ski racer went on, “While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets. Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. I also knew that racing was a risk. It always was and always will be an incredibly dangerous sport.”
“And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life,” she wrote. “We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is the also the beauty of life; we can try. I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.”
“I hope if you take away anything from my journey it’s that you all have the courage to dare greatly,” Lindsey concluded. “Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying. I believe in you, just as you believed in me.”
If you didn’t see, the chief of sport for U.S. Ski and Snowboard also shared an update on Lindsey‘s condition and road to recovery.