{"id":65733,"date":"2026-02-08T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/lindsey-vonn-airlifted-to-hospital-after-crashing-out-of-olympic-downhill-race\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:03:41","slug":"lindsey-vonn-airlifted-to-hospital-after-crashing-out-of-olympic-downhill-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/lindsey-vonn-airlifted-to-hospital-after-crashing-out-of-olympic-downhill-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn airlifted to hospital after crashing out of Olympic downhill race"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Skier\u2019s bid for gold with ruptured ACL ends in agony<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Vonn\u2019s US teammate Breezy Johnson tops podium<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/feb\/08\/winter-olympics-2026-womens-downhill-snowboarding-luge-speed-skating-live\">Winter Olympics 2026: live news and updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lindsey Vonn\u2019s fifth and final Olympics ended in the one way she dreaded most of all. Moments into her run in the women\u2019s downhill, Vonn\u2019s legs failed her as she came over a roll after passing the third gate.<\/p>\n<p>She twisted and crashed sideways to the ground, and after a first stunned burst of shouts and screams, the atmosphere around the Olimpia delle Tofane course fell deadly quiet while the medical team gathered around her. Fifteen minutes later, Vonn was airlifted from the mountain to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/08\/lindsey-vonn-airlifted-hospital-crash-olympic-downhill-skiing-milan-cortina\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skier\u2019s bid for gold with ruptured ACL ends in agony Vonn\u2019s US teammate Breezy Johnson tops podium Winter Olympics 2026: live news and updates Lindsey Vonn\u2019s fifth and final Olympics ended in the one way she dreaded most of all. Moments into her run in the women\u2019s downhill, Vonn\u2019s legs failed her as she came &#8230; <a title=\"Lindsey Vonn airlifted to hospital after crashing out of Olympic downhill race\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/lindsey-vonn-airlifted-to-hospital-after-crashing-out-of-olympic-downhill-race\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lindsey Vonn airlifted to hospital after crashing out of Olympic downhill race\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}