By The Associated PressPublished On 30 Apr 202630 Apr 2026Lindsey 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.The American ski racer has undergone eight surgeries after suffering a complex left leg fracture – one that nearly led to a leg amputation – in the women’s downhill skiing race on February 8 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. She needs at least one more to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in that same knee.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listSo if the 41-year-old races again — and she’s not ready to make that decision — a return is at least a year and a half away, Vonn told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.“I just don’t want to jump to any conclusions or even speculate on what I might do,” Vonn said. “I may retire. I may never race again, and that would be completely fine. But I’m not in a position emotionally to make that decision at this point.”Vonn thinks she would have returned to retirement had she been able to complete a comeback season that rivalled one of the best of her career. She ended a six-year absence from the sport largely to race at Cortina, one of her favorite courses, and the venue for the Milan Cortina Games.The winner of three Olympic medals, including a downhill gold in 2010, Vonn crashed just 13 seconds into the race and suffered a complex tibia fracture, shocking a star-studded crowd and ending a season in which she led the World Cup downhill standings and had not finished worse than fourth in any race. Advertisement She has returned from an assort …
