Skiing great Lindsey Vonn took to social media on Tuesday to share video of her trip back to the United States, a process that required an ambulance to transport her to the tarmac of an Italian airport, where medics carefully loaded her and her hospital gurney onto the airplane for the trip to the United States.
“My leg is still in pieces…but I’m finally HOME!,” the 41-year-old wrote.
She was taken to an undisclosed hospital in the U.S. after the plane landed.
“Intensive care unit (to) ambulance (to) plane (to) ambulance (to) hospital,” she wrote.
Vonn had four surgeries in Italy to treat the complex fracture of her left tibia, suffered on Feb. 8 when she crashed 13 seconds in to the women’s downhill at the Milan Cortina Olympics and was airlifted off the mountain. She faces more surgery and has yet to stand up since breaking her leg.
“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… but I’m going to give you more detail in the coming days,” she wrote.
Vonn, who came out of retirement in 2024 to race in these Olympics, was competing through a torn ACL in her left knee sustained nine days prior to her event in the final tune-up race at Crans-Montana, Switzerland, the latest hurdle in an injury-plagued career that saw her win three Olympic medals (one gold) and more than 80 World Cup races before initially retiring in 2019.
“Thankful to all of the medical staff who helped me get home and seriously looking forward to my next surgery when I can get the X-fix out of my leg and will be able to move more,” she wrote.
–Field Level Media
