Author: Andrew Dampf
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Lindsey Vonn is preparing to fly home to the US with more surgeries to come, team official tells AP
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — American Lindsey Vonn was preparing to fly back to her home country on Sunday after her terrifying head-over-heels crash in the Olympic downhill, the U.S. Ski Team’s chief told The Associated Press. Sophie Goldschmidt, president and CEO of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, said the team’s medical staff has…
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Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympic struggles continue with a fourth-place finish in the team combined
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin extended her Olympic slump with a fourth-place finish in the new team combined event at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday after partner Breezy Johnson led the opening downhill leg. Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup racer of all time with a record 108 victories — 71 of them in slalom, also a record — has…
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Lindsey Vonn says she has complex tibia fracture requiring multiple surgeries after Olympic crash
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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn sustained a “complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly” after her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill, the skier said in a social media post late Monday. Vonn posted on Instagram about her left leg injuries following her fall in…
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Lindsey Vonn’s choice to race Olympic downhill on injured knee questioned after crash
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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The fallout from Lindsey Vonn’s devastating crash in the Olympic downhill included a key question: Given her severely injured left knee, should she have even been allowed on a course that is dangerous even to perfectly healthy skiers? The resounding answer on social media was no. The answer from the…
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Breezy Johnson’s winding road leads to Olympic downhill gold for US on day marred by Vonn’s crash
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — For Breezy Johnson, the road to an Olympic gold medal was similar to the winning downhill run she turned in Sunday: It was full of jarring bumps that nearly knocked her off course, but not off target. There was the knee injury here in Cortina during a training crash that…
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Lindsey Vonn ‘confident’ she can race at Olympics with ruptured ACL in left knee
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn is “confident” she can compete at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics beginning this week with a torn ACL from a crash four days ago. Vonn said on Tuesday the damage to her left knee was a “completed ruptured” ACL, bone bruising “plus meniscal damage.” After three days of…
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Mikaela Shiffrin narrows focus toward tech races ahead of Milan-Cortina Olympics after challenges in Beijing
Mikaela Shiffrin has already ruled out competing in the downhill at the Milan-Cortina Olympics. Another event may be on the way out, too. The two-time Olympic champion remains on the fence about competing in the super-G, only because of a lack of training time. She may focus on slalom and giant slalom for the Feb.…