{"id":66921,"date":"2026-02-23T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/lindsey-vonn-says-surgery-saved-her-leg-from-amputation-after-olympics-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:30:28","slug":"lindsey-vonn-says-surgery-saved-her-leg-from-amputation-after-olympics-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/lindsey-vonn-says-surgery-saved-her-leg-from-amputation-after-olympics-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her leg from amputation after Olympics crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><br \/>\n      <span class=\"content__observer-marker content__observer-marker--fixed lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>American skier\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lindsey-vonn-2026-winter-olympics-ski-slopes-torn-acl\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Lindsey Vonn<\/a><\/span>, who crashed seconds into her downhill race at the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/milan-winter-olympics-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">2026 Winter Olympics<\/a><\/span>, said on Monday that surgery saved her leg from amputation and that she is finally out of the hospital as she continues to recover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m finally well enough to move to a hotel. It&#8217;s not home yet, but it&#8217;s a huge step!&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVGlrZuDYhq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a video message describing her injuries, Vonn credited her surgeon, Dr. Tom Hackett, for saving her leg from being amputated and said he performed a fasciectomy \u2014 a surgery that &#8220;filleted&#8221; her leg open.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vonn said she had a complex tibia fracture and other fractures, and that &#8220;everything was in pieces.&#8221; She also had compartment syndrome, which the Cleveland Clinic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/diseases\/15315-compartment-syndrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">describes<\/a> as a painful buildup of pressure around muscles that can lead to permanent damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She also said she broke her right ankle, had a blood transfusion and was in a wheelchair. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been quite the journey and by far the most extreme and painful and challenging injury I&#8217;ve ever faced in my entire life, times 100,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she has spent nearly two weeks lying in a hospital and was &#8220;almost completely immobile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I will focus on rehab and progressing from a wheelchair to crutches in a few weeks,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;It will take around a year for all of the bones to heal and then I will decide if I want to take out all the metal or not, and then go back into surgery and finally fix my ACL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/11\/683ff7d6-7a02-4123-a52e-9651298c8277\/thumbnail\/620x489g2\/57b1e6255a9ad59ca7799af545858187\/2026-02-11t184704z-808938818-rc2ujjaganqd-rtrmadp-3-olympics-2026-alpine-vonn.jpg#\" alt=\"U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn lies in a hospital bed after surgery for a broken leg at the Winter Olympics \" height=\"489\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/11\/683ff7d6-7a02-4123-a52e-9651298c8277\/thumbnail\/620x489g2\/57b1e6255a9ad59ca7799af545858187\/2026-02-11t184704z-808938818-rc2ujjaganqd-rtrmadp-3-olympics-2026-alpine-vonn.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/11\/683ff7d6-7a02-4123-a52e-9651298c8277\/thumbnail\/1240x978g2\/e50cfa0d76036f431259d9d624f022ea\/2026-02-11t184704z-808938818-rc2ujjaganqd-rtrmadp-3-olympics-2026-alpine-vonn.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn lies in a hospital bed after surgery for a broken leg following her crash at the Winter Olympics in Italy, in this picture obtained from social media on Feb. 11, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                @lindseyvonn via Instagram\/via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 41-year-old American, who lives in Colorado,\u00a0decided to compete in the Olympics despite rupturing her left ACL in a prior crash during a World Cup event in the Swiss Alps. 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