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Lindsey Vonn cannot be broken.
Her bones and other body parts, yes. But her spirit and resilience remains unshakeable.
It's been two months since her horrific crash during the downhill at the Milano Cortina Olympics, which left her with a compound fracture and tibial plateau fracture in her left leg, as well as a broken right ankle. Though she is still on crutches — she should be off them with in the month — she's starting to resume a normal life. She was able to travel to Los Angeles this week, and being around people again has been wonderful, she said.
There are still moments of sadness and pain and disappointment, but Vonn is determined to keep forging ahead. Just as she always has.
"Because I've been through so much, I think that it's allowed me to keep fighting and keep a good perspective," Vonn told USA TODAY Sports on April 7. "And while I do get very low at times, I think I can still see the light at the end of the tunnel. I can still try to keep that positive mindset.
"I don't know where my life will take me going forward, but I do know that I just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other and I will find my way to whatever path that I end up going down."
Vonn, 41, has had five surgeries since the Feb. 8 crash, including a fasciotomy to save her left leg after she developed compartment syndrome. She was hospitalized for about two weeks, first in Treviso, Italy, and then in Colorado, and has said it will take about a year for her injuries to heal completely.
She is diligently doing her rehab, and will have one more surgery to remove all the hardware in her leg and repair her left ACL, which she tore just before the Games.
"I honestly still haven't processed (the crash) because I've been so focused on the surgeries and the rehab and kind of in more of a survival mode. I haven't really had time to just sit and reflect. I've been just trying to make sure that I can do the things that I love moving forward in my life," said Vonn, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports as part of Invivyd's "Antibodies for Any Body" campaign.
"In some ways it feels like I'm still waiting for my Olympic run that I never got to finish. And in some ways I feel like it's so far away and almost never happened," she added. "It's a weird reality to be in."
(This story will be updated with additional information from the interview with Vonn.)
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Lindsey Vonn details injury, recovery, resolve after Olympic crash
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Her bones and other body parts, yes. But her spirit and resilience remains unshakeable.
It's been two months since her horrific crash during the downhill at the Milano Cortina Olympics, which left her with a compound fracture and tibial plateau fracture in her left leg, as well as a broken right ankle. Though she is still on crutches — she should be off them with in the month — she's starting to resume a normal life. She was able to travel to Los Angeles this week, and being around people again has been wonderful, she said.
There are still moments of sadness and pain and disappointment, but Vonn is determined to keep forging ahead. Just as she always has.
"Because I've been through so much, I think that it's allowed me to keep fighting and keep a good perspective," Vonn told USA TODAY Sports on April 7. "And while I do get very low at times, I think I can still see the light at the end of the tunnel. I can still try to keep that positive mindset.
"I don't know where my life will take me going forward, but I do know that I just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other and I will find my way to whatever path that I end up going down."
Vonn, 41, has had five surgeries since the Feb. 8 crash, including a fasciotomy to save her left leg after she developed compartment syndrome. She was hospitalized for about two weeks, first in Treviso, Italy, and then in Colorado, and has said it will take about a year for her injuries to heal completely.
She is diligently doing her rehab, and will have one more surgery to remove all the hardware in her leg and repair her left ACL, which she tore just before the Games.
"I honestly still haven't processed (the crash) because I've been so focused on the surgeries and the rehab and kind of in more of a survival mode. I haven't really had time to just sit and reflect. I've been just trying to make sure that I can do the things that I love moving forward in my life," said Vonn, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports as part of Invivyd's "Antibodies for Any Body" campaign.
"In some ways it feels like I'm still waiting for my Olympic run that I never got to finish. And in some ways I feel like it's so far away and almost never happened," she added. "It's a weird reality to be in."
(This story will be updated with additional information from the interview with Vonn.)
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Lindsey Vonn details injury, recovery, resolve after Olympic crash
Continue reading...
