{"id":66529,"date":"2026-02-17T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/lindsey-vonn-back-in-us-for-treatment-but-not-yet-able-to-stand-after-olympic-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:51","slug":"lindsey-vonn-back-in-us-for-treatment-but-not-yet-able-to-stand-after-olympic-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/lindsey-vonn-back-in-us-for-treatment-but-not-yet-able-to-stand-after-olympic-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Vonn back in US for treatment but \u2018not yet able to stand\u2019 after Olympic crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American fractured tibia in downhill last week<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Vonn was initially treated in Italy for injuries<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lindsey Vonn is back home in the US to continue treatment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/08\/lindsey-vonn-airlifted-hospital-crash-olympic-downhill-skiing-milan-cortina\">after she broke her leg<\/a> during the Winter Olympic downhill.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cHaven\u2019t stood on my feet in over a week\u2026 been in a hospital bed immobile since my race. And although I\u2019m not yet able to stand, being back on home soil feels amazing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lindseyvonn\/status\/2023588031521865826\">Vonn posted on X<\/a> with an American flag emoji. \u201cHuge thank you to everyone in Italy for taking good care of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old suffered a complex tibia fracture after she crashed early in her downhill run on 8 February. She was initially treated in hospital in Italy and underwent several surgeries on her injured leg. She has said she will need further surgery in the US.<\/p>\n<p> Nine days before her fall in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo, Vonn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jan\/31\/lindsey-vonn-misses-final-event-before-winter-olympics-after-downhill-crash\">ruptured the ACL<\/a> in her left knee in another crash in Switzerland. Even before then, she had been the focus of attention heading into the Olympics for her comeback after nearly six years of retirement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/17\/lindsey-vonn-injury-winter-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American fractured tibia in downhill last week Vonn was initially treated in Italy for injuries Lindsey Vonn is back home in the US to continue treatment after she broke her leg during the Winter Olympic downhill. \u201cHaven\u2019t stood on my feet in over a week\u2026 been in a hospital bed immobile since my race. And &#8230; <a title=\"Lindsey Vonn back in US for treatment but \u2018not yet able to stand\u2019 after Olympic crash\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/lindsey-vonn-back-in-us-for-treatment-but-not-yet-able-to-stand-after-olympic-crash\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lindsey Vonn back in US for treatment but \u2018not yet able to stand\u2019 after Olympic 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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66529","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=66529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}