Lindsey Vonn Completes Training Run One Week After She Tore Her Acl

MILAN — American skiing prima Lindsey Vonn went done her first training tally Friday since rupturing nan ACL successful her near knee, flashing a grin astatine nan decorativeness statement aft making it done her 100-second tally without issue.

When Vonn made it down nan people successful Cortina safely, it checked a awesome container successful her effort to badge contempt nan injury. She was wounded one week agone during a World Cup title after she mislaid power coming disconnected a jump while bracing to make a right-hand move connected a people successful Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

It is not nan aforesaid knee that required awesome surgery, and that led her to discontinue successful 2019 earlier launching a comeback past year.

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Friday's tally was delayed much than an hr owed to debased visibility successful Cortina.

Vonn told reporters this week successful Cortina, Italy, that she had undergone "extensive therapy" since rupturing nan knee ligament and that "considering really my knee feels, I consciousness stable, I consciousness strong," she said. "My knee is not swollen, and pinch nan thief of a knee brace, I americium assured that I tin compete connected Sunday."

Before past Friday’s injury, nan 41-year-old Vonn's comeback had been defined by her remarkably accordant health, particularly for an jock who had dealt pinch changeless injuries passim her career. Two victories past period connected nan World Cup circuit turned into a superior badge contender successful Cortina, what she has called her favourite people to compete.

“I cognize what my chances were earlier nan crash, and I cognize my chances aren’t nan aforesaid arsenic it stands today, but I cognize there’s still a chance and arsenic agelong arsenic there’s a chance, I will try," she said.

Vonn added that "I besides cognize what my knee has felt for illustration pinch erstwhile injuries successful nan gym, and what it’s felt for illustration during each nan beingness tests, and I tin opportunity that I consciousness a batch amended correct now than I person successful nan past. I consciousness a batch amended correct now than I did successful 2019 for nan past World Championships, and I still sewage a badge there."