She said she was “confident” she could race with a completely ruptured ACL — and then everything changed. When Lindsey Vonn went down hard on the Olympic slope, the crash instantly reframed what had sounded just days earlier like fearless optimism. Fans who had admired her resolve were suddenly confronted with the reality of what she was risking: a 41-year-old legend pushing her body past reason in pursuit of one final Olympic moment. The footage was jarring, not because of the fall alone, but because it came so soon after her calm insistence that she was ready.
Former Olympian Rennae Stubbs has firmly rejected suggestions that Lindsey Vonn’s devastating Winter Olympics crash was linked to her torn …
She said she was “confident” she could race with a completely ruptured ACL — and then everything changed. When Lindsey Vonn went down hard on the Olympic slope, the crash instantly reframed what had sounded just days earlier like fearless optimism. Fans who had admired her resolve were suddenly confronted with the reality of what she was risking: a 41-year-old legend pushing her body past reason in pursuit of one final Olympic moment. The footage was jarring, not because of the fall alone, but because it came so soon after her calm insistence that she was ready. Read More
