ACL
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U.S. ski racer Lindsey Vonn says her left leg was saved by a doctor who ‘wouldn’t have been there’ had she not ruptured her ACL a week before the Milan-Cortina Olympics began.
From Los Angeles Times
“If I hadn’t torn my ACL ... Tom wouldn’t have been there. He wouldn’t have been able to save my leg.”
From Los Angeles Times
Vonn did not allow the torn ACL to prevent her from competing in what she has called her “fifth and final Olympics.”
From Los Angeles Times
“It will take around a year for all of the bones to heal and then I will decide if I want to take out all the metal or not,” Vonn wrote in the Instagram post, “and then go back into surgery and finally fix my ACL.”
From Los Angeles Times
Just days before the 2026 Winter Olympics, Vonn tore her ACL in a crash at a World Cup downhill event in France.
From Salon
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