Tag: Lindsey Vonn
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Lindsey Vonn tells the AP she is not yet in position emotionally to decide if she will race again
NEW YORK (AP) — Lindsey Vonn is still recovering physically and emotionally from her frightening crash at the Winter Olympics. For now, the tough decisions about the future can wait. She has undergone eight surgeries after suffering a complex left leg fracture — one that nearly led to a leg amputation — in the women’s…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Nuggets have only one chance to beat Thunder in the NBA playoffs
For the Nuggets to beat Oklahoma City in the NBA playoffs, someone has to step up and be an enforcer besides Nikola Jokic. – Roberto, Denver Kiz: Let’s get down to the real nitty-gritty. Without Aaron Gordon, I’m not so sure the Nuggets survive one round of the playoffs, much less have a chance to…
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Lindsey Vonn gets encouragement from soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo as she recovers from injury
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One of soccer’s all-time legends this week sent words of encouragement to Colorado skier Lindsey Vonn as she recovers from a gruesome injury sustained at the Winter Olympics in Cortina. Cristiano Ronaldo shared the positive words in a comment on Vonn’s Instagram post after she announced she was finally out of the hospital after two…
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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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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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Mark Kiszla: The mountain doesn’t care. It laughed at skier Lindsey Vonn’s plans for a fairy-tale ending in Italy.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – Every ski racer has a plan until the mountain wrecks ’em at 60 mph. American downhiller Breezy Johnson was sizzling Sunday, screaming down the mountain to win a gold medal. But what will leave the impossible-to-erase marks on our memory from this race are the agonizing shrieks from teammate Lindsey Vonn,…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Would Broncos be in Super Bowl today if John Elway got QB he liked in 2018 NFL draft?
I hate the Seahawks. I abhor the Patriots. I’ve never heard of Bad Bunny and already can’t stand his “music.” Can’t stand NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth. But I probably watch the Super Bowl anyway. – J-Dawg, Boulder Kiz: Two years ago, when Sam Darnold was trying to rehabilitate his NFL career as a seldom-used reserve…
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Mark Kiszla: Lindsey Vonn’s idea of fun? Skiing 80 mph at Olympics on a shredded knee
MILAN, Italy — With a ghost in her ear and no fear in her heart, Lindsey Vonn is hellbent on fulfilling a dream that would sound like an absolute nightmare to most any other 41-year-old woman on the planet. Skiing down a mountain at 80 mph? That’s crazy. But doing it on a trashed knee…
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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…