Lindsey Vonn has left the hospital after a Milan crash that ended her final Olympic run; local doctor explains how emergency surgery treated the traumatic injury and possible timeline of recovery.

Lindsey Vonn crashed at the 2026 Winter Olympics, broke her leg and was airlifted to a hospital. Here are the latest injury updates today.

Vonn credited Dr. Tom Hackett, an orthopedic surgeon who works for Vonn and Team USA, for conducting a fasciotomy to salvage her leg. “He filleted it open (and) let it breathe, and he saved me,” she ...

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Lindsey Vonn shared an update on her health, including how surgery saved her left leg, in an Instagram video Monday morning.

Lindsey Vonn says she nearly had her leg amputated after she fractured her tibia at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Lindsey Vonn crashed just 13 seconds into her run Sunday in the Olympic women's downhill. She said Monday night that she faced "multiple surgeries" after a tibia fracture. Jacquelyn Martin / ...

US skiing star Lindsey Vonn said she sustained a “complex tibia fracture” in her crash during the Winter Olympics downhill event and expects to undergo “multiple surgeries” as she recovers. The ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- 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 ...