Crans-Montana, Switzerland — Lindsey Vonn crashed in her remaining downhill earlier than the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Friday.
Vonn misplaced management when touchdown a bounce in a World Cup race and ended up tangled within the security nets.
She ultimately received up after receiving medical consideration and walked away gingerly, taking weight off her left knee and utilizing her poles to regular herself. She then clicked her skis again on however stopped to verify her left knee.
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Organizers known as off the race attributable to deteriorating situations, with snow falling and Vonn in sixth and final place of those that took half, the Reuters information company reported.
The 41-year-old Vonn has been the circuit’s main downhiller this season, having returned final season after a partial proper knee titanium alternative.
The crash occurred precisely every week earlier than the Milan Cortina opening ceremony.
Vonn’s first Olympic race is the ladies’s downhill on Feb. 8.
Final month, she raced to a stunningly fast win in a World Cup downhill at St. Moritz to earn her first victory in almost eight years — and the primary in her comeback with titanium implants in her proper knee after a five-year retirement.
