Vonn and the first days after surgery on her left leg: “I’m already home and on the road to a full recovery”

Twenty-four hours after updating everyone following what was her ninth surgical procedure in the space of nine months, Lindsey Vonn once again took to social media to describe the hours after the operation on the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, which she had already injured in Crans-Montana, before the devastating crash she suffered in the Olympic downhill, performed at the Steadman Clinic in Vail.

Confirming that everything went according to plan and that she has already been able to return home: “The operation went well; it took more than five hours to remove everything from my leg and repair the ligament,” LV84 explained. “I’m home and grateful to be on the road to a full recovery.

Thanks to Dr. Hackett, Dr. Viola (the doctors who oversaw the entire rehabilitation process of the American champion), Lindsay Winninger and the federation, as well as all the medical staff and, of course, my loved ones for helping me through this moment.”

As she has reiterated on several occasions, Vonn will now have to decide over the coming months whether to put her skis back on and possibly try—because the door remains open—a sensational return in 2027/28, following the extraordinary achievements of last winter, up to those ten days when everything changed, between the crash in Crans-Montana and the one in Cortina on the day the queen of speed had been waiting for years.