{"id":65806,"date":"2026-02-09T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/shes-a-grown-woman-skiers-defend-lindsey-vonns-decision-to-race-despite-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:59:23","slug":"shes-a-grown-woman-skiers-defend-lindsey-vonns-decision-to-race-despite-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/shes-a-grown-woman-skiers-defend-lindsey-vonns-decision-to-race-despite-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018She\u2019s a grown woman\u2019: skiers defend Lindsey Vonn\u2019s decision to race despite crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American was competing with ruptured ACL<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Vonn fractured leg after crashing in Sunday\u2019s race<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lindsey Vonn\u2019s fellow skiers have defended her decision to compete in the women\u2019s downhill at the Winter Olympics while dealing with a ruptured ACL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/08\/lindsey-vonn-airlifted-hospital-crash-olympic-downhill-skiing-milan-cortina\">The American crashed out early<\/a> in her run on Sunday. She suffered a fractured leg and was airlifted from the course. Some users on social media said she should not have been racing only a week after injuring her knee. But those who know the risks of skiing best supported Vonn\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/09\/lindsey-vonn-crash-acl-winter-olympics-skiing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American was competing with ruptured ACL Vonn fractured leg after crashing in Sunday\u2019s race Lindsey Vonn\u2019s fellow skiers have defended her decision to compete in the women\u2019s downhill at the Winter Olympics while dealing with a ruptured ACL. The American crashed out early in her run on Sunday. She suffered a fractured leg and was &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018She\u2019s a grown woman\u2019: skiers defend Lindsey Vonn\u2019s decision to race despite crash\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/shes-a-grown-woman-skiers-defend-lindsey-vonns-decision-to-race-despite-crash\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018She\u2019s a grown woman\u2019: skiers defend Lindsey Vonn\u2019s decision to race despite crash\">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-65806","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\/65806","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=65806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}