Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 11:21     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Looks like she hit a pole in the air and it spun her a bit. Crash not even related to her knee. I hope she is okay. It looked pretty bad.

She did earn her spot. They also don't do replacements in skiing, so, she wasn't taking someone else's opportunity. If she didn't compete, the spot would have just been open. I don't know if it makes sense to compete on a ruptured ACL. Probably not a choice I would have made in her place, but, I would never be a downhill skier anyway. You have to have outsized confidence and ego to excel in this sport.


Of course its related. You think if she had stable knees and no pain she might have had better control and not clipped a gate on the first place? Because I’m guessing that’s exactly what happened.


We can all speculate all we want.
Are you a alpine racer, physio or orthopedist?[/]

Yeah we’ll go with your interpretation that Vonn crashed 12 seconds into a ski run by clipping at gate but her knees had absolutely nothing to do with her ability to control her skiing. Yeah.
That’s the common sense way.


She completed two training runs w/o any incident. She was 11th & 3rd respectively, not going all out. Her knee was OK to race today.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 11:21     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Folks, skiers are crazy adrenaline junkies. Breezy Johnson, who won gold in this event, competed without her parents present because her dad is recovering from a ski injury last month. Half the downhill skiers have some kind of injury like this in their past or, like Vonn, multiple such injuries.

I think it's crazy but I think downhill skiing is crazy.

I don't personally find Vonn's decision to compete in these Olympics inspiring -- it seems dumb to me. But I doubt she cares about my opinion.

I do think it's cool how long she has competed at such a high level, into her 40s. I always love to see people show longevity in these sports, I think it's impressive. But competing on a torn ACL and then crashing out almost immediately. Seems lame. Oh well.


It's a sport with a massive injury and crash rate. There were 3 crashes in the women's downhill and two of them (incl. Vonn) required them to stop so they could airlift the skiier out. And that's not really abnormal, especially when the conditions are a certain way.


Watching the event from start to finish was like listening to every skier's MyChart records being read out loud - torn ACLs, broken bones, rebuilt shoulders, concussions, rehab, even for the "healthy" ones. I'm sticking to board games.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 10:56     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Looks like she hit a pole in the air and it spun her a bit. Crash not even related to her knee. I hope she is okay. It looked pretty bad.

She did earn her spot. They also don't do replacements in skiing, so, she wasn't taking someone else's opportunity. If she didn't compete, the spot would have just been open. I don't know if it makes sense to compete on a ruptured ACL. Probably not a choice I would have made in her place, but, I would never be a downhill skier anyway. You have to have outsized confidence and ego to excel in this sport.


Of course its related. You think if she had stable knees and no pain she might have had better control and not clipped a gate on the first place? Because I’m guessing that’s exactly what happened.


We can all speculate all we want.
Are you a alpine racer, physio or orthopedist?[/]

Yeah we’ll go with your interpretation that Vonn crashed 12 seconds into a ski run by clipping at gate but her knees had absolutely nothing to do with her ability to control her skiing. Yeah. That’s the common sense way.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 10:53     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Looks like she hit a pole in the air and it spun her a bit. Crash not even related to her knee. I hope she is okay. It looked pretty bad.

She did earn her spot. They also don't do replacements in skiing, so, she wasn't taking someone else's opportunity. If she didn't compete, the spot would have just been open. I don't know if it makes sense to compete on a ruptured ACL. Probably not a choice I would have made in her place, but, I would never be a downhill skier anyway. You have to have outsized confidence and ego to excel in this sport.


Of course its related. You think if she had stable knees and no pain she might have had better control and not clipped a gate on the first place? Because I’m guessing that’s exactly what happened.


We can all speculate all we want.
Are you a alpine racer, physio or orthopedist?


Are you????
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 10:29     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else annoyed that Vonn is competing with her destroyed knee? Why not give the next generation a chance? She must know she can’t medal in this state so why not pass the torch and be a mentor to younger skiers? Admittedly I also just generally don’t like her between dating Tiger Woods and her childish social media spat with Mikaela Shiffrin. At this point competing seems like another publicity stunt.


Sheet stupidity! I hope that she is all right with no permanent damage.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 10:27     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Folks, skiers are crazy adrenaline junkies. Breezy Johnson, who won gold in this event, competed without her parents present because her dad is recovering from a ski injury last month. Half the downhill skiers have some kind of injury like this in their past or, like Vonn, multiple such injuries.

I think it's crazy but I think downhill skiing is crazy.

I don't personally find Vonn's decision to compete in these Olympics inspiring -- it seems dumb to me. But I doubt she cares about my opinion.

I do think it's cool how long she has competed at such a high level, into her 40s. I always love to see people show longevity in these sports, I think it's impressive. But competing on a torn ACL and then crashing out almost immediately. Seems lame. Oh well.


My uncle is a Physical Therapist in ski country who specializes in rehabbing skiing injuries. My uncle keeps adding staff and can't keep up with all the demand.


Skiiers trash their knees and snowboarders trash their shoulders.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 10:26     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:Folks, skiers are crazy adrenaline junkies. Breezy Johnson, who won gold in this event, competed without her parents present because her dad is recovering from a ski injury last month. Half the downhill skiers have some kind of injury like this in their past or, like Vonn, multiple such injuries.

I think it's crazy but I think downhill skiing is crazy.

I don't personally find Vonn's decision to compete in these Olympics inspiring -- it seems dumb to me. But I doubt she cares about my opinion.

I do think it's cool how long she has competed at such a high level, into her 40s. I always love to see people show longevity in these sports, I think it's impressive. But competing on a torn ACL and then crashing out almost immediately. Seems lame. Oh well.


It's a sport with a massive injury and crash rate. There were 3 crashes in the women's downhill and two of them (incl. Vonn) required them to stop so they could airlift the skiier out. And that's not really abnormal, especially when the conditions are a certain way.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 10:26     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:Folks, skiers are crazy adrenaline junkies. Breezy Johnson, who won gold in this event, competed without her parents present because her dad is recovering from a ski injury last month. Half the downhill skiers have some kind of injury like this in their past or, like Vonn, multiple such injuries.

I think it's crazy but I think downhill skiing is crazy.

I don't personally find Vonn's decision to compete in these Olympics inspiring -- it seems dumb to me. But I doubt she cares about my opinion.

I do think it's cool how long she has competed at such a high level, into her 40s. I always love to see people show longevity in these sports, I think it's impressive. But competing on a torn ACL and then crashing out almost immediately. Seems lame. Oh well.


My uncle is a Physical Therapist in ski country who specializes in rehabbing skiing injuries. My uncle keeps adding staff and can't keep up with all the demand.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 10:22     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Folks, skiers are crazy adrenaline junkies. Breezy Johnson, who won gold in this event, competed without her parents present because her dad is recovering from a ski injury last month. Half the downhill skiers have some kind of injury like this in their past or, like Vonn, multiple such injuries.

I think it's crazy but I think downhill skiing is crazy.

I don't personally find Vonn's decision to compete in these Olympics inspiring -- it seems dumb to me. But I doubt she cares about my opinion.

I do think it's cool how long she has competed at such a high level, into her 40s. I always love to see people show longevity in these sports, I think it's impressive. But competing on a torn ACL and then crashing out almost immediately. Seems lame. Oh well.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 09:58     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She completed training runs with excellent times yesterday. Stuff just happens.


This!
Very choppy snow already entering that turn and her aggression seemed to hook her up in the rut really hard which carried her into the gate.


I heard they're worried about heavy snow on the men's downhill too.


Men’s DH took place yesterday.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 09:58     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Looks like she hit a pole in the air and it spun her a bit. Crash not even related to her knee. I hope she is okay. It looked pretty bad.

She did earn her spot. They also don't do replacements in skiing, so, she wasn't taking someone else's opportunity. If she didn't compete, the spot would have just been open. I don't know if it makes sense to compete on a ruptured ACL. Probably not a choice I would have made in her place, but, I would never be a downhill skier anyway. You have to have outsized confidence and ego to excel in this sport.


Of course its related. You think if she had stable knees and no pain she might have had better control and not clipped a gate on the first place? Because I’m guessing that’s exactly what happened.


We can all speculate all we want.
Are you a alpine racer, physio or orthopedist?
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 09:56     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She completed training runs with excellent times yesterday. Stuff just happens.


This!
Very choppy snow already entering that turn and her aggression seemed to hook her up in the rut really hard which carried her into the gate.


I heard they're worried about heavy snow on the men's downhill too.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 09:56     Subject: Re:Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love Lindsey, but she selfishly took a spot on the team that should have gone to a healthy skier.


BS
She qualified fair & square! Haven’t you watched her World Cup races this season?


Did she race those on a shredded ACL?


I was responding to someone saying she selfishly took a spot. She earned it & completed her training runs w/o issue.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 09:54     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:Looks like she hit a pole in the air and it spun her a bit. Crash not even related to her knee. I hope she is okay. It looked pretty bad.

She did earn her spot. They also don't do replacements in skiing, so, she wasn't taking someone else's opportunity. If she didn't compete, the spot would have just been open. I don't know if it makes sense to compete on a ruptured ACL. Probably not a choice I would have made in her place, but, I would never be a downhill skier anyway. You have to have outsized confidence and ego to excel in this sport.


Of course its related. You think if she had stable knees and no pain she might have had better control and not clipped a gate on the first place? Because I’m guessing that’s exactly what happened.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2026 09:54     Subject: Lindsey Vonn
Anonymous wrote:She completed training runs with excellent times yesterday. Stuff just happens.


This!
Very choppy snow already entering that turn and her aggression seemed to hook her up in the rut really hard which carried her into the gate.