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As reported just now on Sky Sports - pretty amazing if she actually manages to get down in one piece! My knees ache at the very thought of it!
Vonn 'confident' she will race at Olympics despite 'completely ruptured' ACL in left knee
Lindsey Vonn has confirmed that despite a ruptured ACL, she skied on Tuesday and will compete at Milano Cortina.
Vonn confirmed she "completely ruptured" her ACL, has bone bruising, "plus meniscal damage".
But after three days of physical therapy and consultations with doctors, Vonn went skiing on Tuesday with a brace on her knee.
"It feels stable, it feels strong," she said, adding she was "confident" to race.
"I will do everything in my power to be in the starting gate."
Vonn crashed in a downhill in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on Friday and ended up in the safety nets. After skiing down to the bottom of the course, she was airlifted away for medical attention.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I think there’s a female WC skier who has an un-operated on long term major ACL injury, her plan is to get it dealt with properly post career. The TNT team sometimes mention this during races.
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I think it should be noted that partial ACL tears are quite rare. It's usually either a bit of a stretch or a total tear.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Kirsty Muir, our gold medal hope in the ski big air and slopestyle, has returned from ACL surgery not that long ago. But she only discovered that she had a torn ACL when she tweaked her knee on in a comp, did the 2nd run, finished highly etc. but then went for a scan. Where she was told "you have a torn ACL, it wasn't recent though, you must have been competing without it for a while. She had no idea when it happened.
Chose to get it fixed pre Olympic cycle but I assume that would have been a different choice closer to the Olympics.
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@Steilhang,
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I assume she will use a brace.
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LV said in the press conference that she'll be using a brace.
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