{"id":67806,"date":"2026-03-02T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/hilary-knight-won-olympic-ice-hockey-gold-with-torn-mcl-im-not-walking-around-the-best\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:56:13","slug":"hilary-knight-won-olympic-ice-hockey-gold-with-torn-mcl-im-not-walking-around-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/hilary-knight-won-olympic-ice-hockey-gold-with-torn-mcl-im-not-walking-around-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Knight won Olympic ice hockey gold with torn MCL: \u2018I\u2019m not walking around the best\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US captain scored in final despite dealing with injury<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Knight says she has been overwhelmed by fans\u2019 support<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hilary Knight revealed on Monday that she led the US women\u2019s ice hockey team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/19\/usa-canada-womens-ice-hockey-final-winter-olympics\">to gold at last month\u2019s Olympics<\/a> while suffering from a torn medial collateral ligament (MCL) in one of her knees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not walking around the best, and I\u2019m missing a few games for the [PWHL\u2019s] Seattle Torrent,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hilary-knight-us-womens-hockey-trump-comments-olympics\/#\">Knight said on CBS Mornings<\/a>. \u201cTo be able to play through injury was definitely a mental sort of gymnastic challenge for myself and also physical, but we\u2019ve got some amazing support staff that did their best to get me out there and perform at my best \u2013 as best as I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/02\/hilary-knight-winter-olympics-ice-hockey-torn-mcl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US captain scored in final despite dealing with injury Knight says she has been overwhelmed by fans\u2019 support Hilary Knight revealed on Monday that she led the US women\u2019s ice hockey team to gold at last month\u2019s Olympics while suffering from a torn medial collateral ligament (MCL) in one of her knees. \u201cI\u2019m not walking &#8230; <a title=\"Hilary Knight won Olympic ice hockey gold with torn MCL: \u2018I\u2019m not walking around the best\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/hilary-knight-won-olympic-ice-hockey-gold-with-torn-mcl-im-not-walking-around-the-best\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hilary Knight won Olympic ice hockey gold with torn MCL: \u2018I\u2019m not walking around the best\u2019\">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-67806","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\/67806","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=67806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}