Nearly a week after devastating crash, Lindsey Vonn wants to go home
Feb 14, 2026
Lindsey Vonn will have another surgery on her broken left leg Saturday at the Italian hospital treating her “and then I can potentially leave and go back home.”
Vonn posted a video message on Instagram on Friday following her horrific crash in the Olympic downhill race at the Milan Cort
ina Olympics.
“Hey guys, I just wanted to give you a little update and say thank you so much to everyone that has been sending me flowers and letters,” Vonn said, adding that she has also received stuffed animals, including a shark pillow that she was resting her head on in the video. “It’s just been so amazing and really helped me a lot.
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“It has been quite a hard few days in the hospital here. I’m finally feeling more like myself. I have a long, long way to go. Tomorrow I’ll have another surgery and hopefully that goes well and then I can potentially leave and go back home, at which point I will need another surgery,” she said Friday. “Still don’t know exactly what that entails yet until I get some better imaging, but it’s kind of where I am right now.”
Vonn is being treated at a hospital in Treviso.
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